The Library of Children's Song Classics – Piano, Vocal and Guitar Songbook | Easy-to-Read Lyrics, Chords and Arrangements | Illustrated Collection of Storybook, Holiday and Folk Songs

A treasure of nursery rhymes children will love to hear over and over again.

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Love this collection of kids' songs! I play and sing them with my little daughters (age 2 and 5) every day, and they really enjoy picking out new songs to learn together. The cute, vintage- looking illustrations help them to decide which songs to choose.The arrangements are ideal for singalongs. Most are pretty simple, but some of the lullabies and holiday songs have juicier chords to keep things interesting. A few of the arrangements have slightly different melody lines than the versions I learned as a kid, but we don't mind. The book is full of childhood favorites, and also some beautiful old songs that I hadn't been familiar with before. All in all, it's a perfect addition to my music collection, and a favorite of my kids.

I ordered this with my fingers crossed and got lucky- it's wonderful, just what I wanted. It has an enormous variety of kids' songs, over 200 of them, such as "Farmer in the Dell," "Eeensy Weensy Spider,"etc., but it also throws in more adult songs that you might like to teach your child such as "Kumbaya," "It's a Grand Old Flag," "Down in the Valley," Oh, Susanna," etc. Terrific and imaginative selection, and it also has holiday songs- pretty much every category you can think of. The sheet music is just right- simple melody lines with just enough chords. I suppose this book would be good for children who are learning to play piano, but we bought it for songs to sing with our 3 year old. She sits at the piano and kind of tries to play along with us, but mostly she just sings and adores flipping the pages and going from one song to another. Best of all, the book is easy to press back and hold steady while you play, where so many large compilation books of sheet music won't stay still and close up on you when you play. Wow- terrific songbook.

I'm a piano teacher and I'm thinking about teaching voice lessons as well, so I decided to start out with my roommate and her 8 year old son. Neither of them have any experience with singing, so I thought I'd start with some fun children's songs to build their confidence. This book has a lot of familiar songs to choose from, and most are in a very "singable" range. There are also a lot of songs that none of us have ever heard of. The piano accompaniments are simple, which is good and bad--it means I can sight read most of the accompaniments easily (less practice time), and there's less going on in the piano part to confuse beginning singers, but some of them leave something to be desired. My biggest complaint with the book is that it isn't spiral bound, making it almost impossible to keep it open on the piano. Despite its few flaws, I'm glad to have added it to my collection.

I bought this to sing with my 2 year old granddaughter and she loves it! I wish the pictures were bigger and more suggestive of the songs because children love to sing and look at pictures. Some of the songs have no pictures and they could have done better on that count. However, it is fun to sing through these songs with children. There is a good mix of favorites here and some I never knew before. I also think it is great for children to have books with music notes written in them to give them an interest in learning to read music and play an instrument. I highly recommend!

Nice harmonies however I found some wrong notes in the bass line. They sound like mistakes. Otherwise if is a fun book that we use a lot for our toddler.

I love this book! It has large dark print, lovely sketches, spiral bound, and contains wonderful songs with several verses. It is mainly intended for the piano but most of the songs also have chords that can be played on a stringed instrument. I'm still at the beginning Intermediate stage playing a baritone uke, and the children songs are ones I remember well so they lend themselves to detecting the different changes in chords. I simplify the piano chords if I can't play them and they have added a richer melody to songs I have played in Beginning Uke books. Bought it used and not a mark in it!

A lot of songs we know and even more that we don’t know yet.

No left hand accompaniment no indication of chords. I don't find the quality very high. Disappointed.

Great selection, perfect to sing and play along. Chors included for guitar or ukelele. This is a must have for families that enjoy music.