The Humpherys Family

Songs for The Nursery School

Record Added: 7/22/2016
Illustrator Peter Perrine
Setting United States
Topic Arts and Music
Publisher Publisher, Misc
Year 1937
Age 4-8   Pages 116
Description Yellow binding, blue spine
 
The book has 159 songs, some only several words long. It is quite a fascinating document of preschool activities from a late 1930's perspective. Songs are grouped under the following categories:
  • Activities for Two-Year-Olds
  • Tone Games
  • Finger Plays
  • Transportation
  • Songs About Animals
  • Songs About Water
  • Songs of the Seasons
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Songs for Rest-Time
  • Miscellaneous

The book also has an alphabetical listing of the songs (and page #'s) in the back. There are other familiar verses such as Silent Night, This Old Man, Humpty Dumpty Among others. Also of note, There's a song about the Empire State building, which was only 5 or 6 years old when this book was published. There's even a song about a Zeppelin.
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