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Celebration of Rock

Circle Time

Gimme Elbow Room

Round and Round the Garden

Silly Favorites

Toddler Favorites

Baby Songs

Children's Favorites

Coyotes

Dance Music

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen Covey [Non-musical]
Subjects: Family. Communication in the family. Parent and child. Audiobooks.
Notes: This new learning system focuses on the principles and habits that make truly happy and effective families.
Call Number: HQ734 .C8658 1997

Bamboo Valley: A story of a Chinese bamboo forest by Ann Whitehead Nagda [Non-musical]
Subjects: Giant panda. Juvenile sound recordings. Children's audiobooks.
A panda encounters danger as he leaves his Chinese bamboo forest in search of a new home.
Call Number: PZ10.3.N14Bam 1997

Child's Celebration of Rock'n Roll [Musical]
Notes:Yesterday's rock 'n' rollers can sing and dance along with the kids to this collection of America's favorites.
Table of Contents: Rock around the clock (Bill Haley and the Comets), Charlie Brown (The Coasters), Splish splash (Bobby Darin), Willie & the hand jive (Johnny Otis), Lollipop (The Chordettes), Rockin' robin (Bobby Day), Alley Oop (The Hollywood Argyles), Yakety yak (The Coasters), Name game (Shirley Ellis) Purple people eater (Sheb Wooley), Does your chewing gum lose its flavor (Lonnie Donegan), Monster mash (Bobby "Boris" Pickett), Sea cruise (Frankie Ford) Get a job (The Silhouettes), La bamba (Ritchie Valens)
Call Number: ML3534.C537 1996

Child's Celebration of Dance Music [Musical]
Table of Contents: Fun, fun, fun (The Beach Boys), Twist (Chubby Checker), I want you back (The Jackson Five), Disco duck (Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots), Party lights (Claudine Clark), Duke of Earl (Gene Chandler), Palisades Park (Freddy "BoomBoom" Cannon), Barbara Ann (The Beach Boys), Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton), Limbo rock (Chubby Checker), I ain't got no home (Clarence "Frogman" Henry), Monkey time (Major Lance), No particular place to go (Chuck Berry), Wooly bully (Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs), Shake a tailfeather (Taj Mahal & the Cultural Heritage Choir).
Call Number: M1047 . C537 1998

Children's Favorites [Musical]
Table of Contents: Row, row, row your boat; Sailing, sailing; She'll be comin' round the mountain; Old Dan Tucker; Clementine; I've been working on the railroad; Old King Cole; Sing a song of sixpence; London Bridge; The bear went over the mountain; It's raining, it's pouring, Waltzing Matilda; This old man (nick, nack paddy whack); If you're happy & you know it; When the saints go marching in; Shortnin' bread; The hokey pokey.
Call Number: M1047 . C537 1998

Choo Choo Boogaloo [Musical]
Subjects: Giant panda. Juvenile sound recordings. Children's audiobooks.
Table of Contents:Choo choo boogaloo; Get on board;
Give me a squeeze, please; Iko iko, Jeleron, Cotton fields (The cotton
song); Crawfish song, Skip to my Lou; Skip to my blues; They all asked
for you; Mardi gras mambo, Little red caboose.
Call Number: M1629.7.L8C548 1994

Fiesta Musical: A musical Adventure through Latin America for Children [Musical]
Subjects: Children's songs Latin America. Songs, Spanish Juvenile sound recordings.
Table of Contents:Fiesta musical : M & M's bilingual rap (María Medina-Serafin), A la escuela (Bobí Céspedes), La acamaya (Eugene Rodriguez & Artemio Posadas Jimenez), Tonadas de quitiplas (Jackeline Rago), Salaque (Sukay), Happy bomba (Carolyn Brandy), Los pollitos (María Márquez), De la puna (Sukay), Los enanos (Eugene Rodriguez & Artemio Posadas Jimenez), El gallo pinto (Claudia Gomez), Una melodia (Bobí Céspedes), No llora má (María Márquez).
Call Number: M1992 .F527 1994

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Guiding Your Child's Musical Development [Non-musical]by Edwin Gordon
Subjects: Musical ability. Music Instruction and study Juvenile.
Notes:Designed for parents and their children from infancy through age five. Cassette contains song and instrumental examples of tonality and rhythm.
Call Number: MT1 .G645 1991

How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be [Non-musical]by Adele Faber
Subjects: Parenting. Child rearing. Interpersonal communication. Audiobooks.
Call Number: HQ769 .F115 1999

Introducing the Coyotes [Musical]
Subjects: Children's songs Juvenile sound recordings.
Table of Contents: Wake up Nate, Look out for that cat, Good night to Eve, Some frogs, There was a ship, The last cowboy, The monkey shine, Old mother earth, Everything grows, Bakin' bread, Sunday, Rising star.
Call Number: M1992 .C881 2000

Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense [Musical]
Table of Contents: The irrational anthem, Can't wait to celebrate, I'll spell it out for you, Saxophones, Shakin' everywhere, The gong song, Jumping and counting, Toy boat, Follow the band, (Jim Gill is) going nowhere, Laughing in rhythm, Buffet ballet, Bix Beiderbecke, The dance along gong song, Yodeling, May there always be sunshine
Call Number: M1992.G475 2001

Jim Gill Makes it Noisy in Boise, Idaho [Musical]
Table of Contents: List of dances, YOW!; Stick to the glue; The night we made it noisy in Boise, Idaho; All filled up, Doughnuts; Your face will surely show it; 5 strings on my banjo, Oh hey oh hi hello, Jim Gill's lullaby; Tickle toe; The sound effects song; Let's dance now! (Jim Gill and Steve Rashid); If you want to sing out, sing out (Cat Stevens)
Call Number: M1992 .G475 1995

Jim Gill Sings Do Re Mi on His Toe Leg Knee [Musical]
Table of Contents: The tempo marches on, Knuckles knees, Spin again, The wrong song, Toe leg knee, My ups and downs, San Francisco, Driving here, driving there, My Bonnie, Yes, No, Maybe, Color game, Mashed potatoes, Spin again..again, The nothing wrong song
Call Number: M1992 .G475 1999

Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes [Musical]
Table of Contents: The sneezing song, Hands are for clapping, Old sock stew, I took a bath in the washing machine, Alabama, Mississippi (traditional), Poison ivy, The hi dee ho man (words and music by Ella Jenkins), Silly dance contest, I'm so mad, Step back Sally (traditional), Simone's song (The Parrot song), Spaghetti legs, The banana song, Leaky umbrella, May there always be sunshine (traditional)
Call Number: M1992 . G475 1993

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Jump Right in to Listening: Music for Young Children [Non-musical]
Subject(s): Music appreciation Music collections. Music Instruction and study.
Notes: ll performances recorded at the University of Arizona School of Music. Short selections providing contrasts in dynamics, timbre, style, and rhythm designed to be used as background music for children during play or resting times.
Call Number: MT1.J86 1991

Ready or Not: Why treating children as small adults endangers their future--and ours [Non-musical] by Kay Hymowitz
Notes: Children seem to be growing up more quickly than ever before. Almost daily we hear astonishing examples of young people flying airplanes, running companies, or committing adult crimes. Hymowitz offers a startling explanation for today's sophisticated youngsters.
Call Number: HQ792 .U5H86 2000

Skunk at Hemlock Circle [Non-musical] by Victoria Sherrow
Subject(s): Skunks Juvenile fiction. Skunks Fiction.
span class="feature-title-VL">Notes: Skunk comes out at night to search the backyard for his dinner.
Call Number: PZ10.3 .S387Sk 1994

Toddler Favorites [Musical]
Table of Contents: I'm a little teapot, The wheels on the bus, Where is Thumbkin, Happy birthday to you, This little pig, Mary had a little lamb, The more we get together, Skip to my Lou, This old man, Frere Jacques, Monkeys on the bed, Engine number nine, Down by the station (Little Red Caboose medley), Peas, porridge hot, Ring-around-the-rosy, 7,8,9 joke, If you're happy and you know it, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Old MacDonald had a farm, Baa Baa Black sheep, Alphabet song, It's raining (Itsy bitsy spider medley), Twinkle twinkle
Call Number: M1994 .T636 1998

You Can't Make Me [Non-musical] by Cynthia Tobias
Subject(s): Problem children Behavior modification United States. Problem children United States Family relationships. Problem children United States Conduct of life. Child psychology United States. Individuality in children United States. Discipline in children.
Notes: Strategies for bringing out the best in your strong-willed child. Cassette.
Call Number: HQ773 .T63 1999

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