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Raffi’s Top 10 Songs to Read

Crown Publishers

This is a compilation of ten songs that have been written down and brightly illustrated. Each song takes up three or four pages. The lyrics are written out, and most of them also include piano accompaniment. In the back of the book are other suggested activities to be done with each song, like hand motions or clapping. This book could be a good resource for teachers, even if they don’t read the book aloud to their class, because it is a compilation of songs that could also be taught by wrote, along with the accompanying actions. Songs include the following: “Baby Baluga”, “Down by the Bay”, “Everything Grows”, “Five Little Ducks”, “Like Me and You”, “One Light, One Sun”, “Shake My Sillies Out”, “Spider on the Floor”, “Tingalayo”, and “Wheels on the Bus”.