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The Round Book
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald with Winifred Jaeger
Illustrator: Yvonne LeBrun Davis
My family started singing rounds at the dinner table one night and soon ran out of fodder. So I rounded up some more, then went to Winnie Jaeger’s house to ask for help with transcription. She ran into her closet and pulled out a whole mountain of round collections, some from her youth in Germany. Later we tested the book out with a round sing at the home of Winnie and author Mary Whittington. What fun!
The book contains 80 singable rounds. Since Winnie is honorary vice-president of the American Recorder Society, she made sure the rounds are good for recorder part-playing too.
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2006 |
August House
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$17.95 |
136 pages |
978-0-86483-786-5 |
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"A wonderful compendium of old favorites and surprises. MacDonald and Jaeger have done all rounds-singers a great favor." ...
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"easy-to-follow resource book…even novice sight readers will have little difficulty" ...Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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"A fine resource for school music teachers, choir directors, camp leaders, and children who sing for the love of it.
" ...Booklist
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"The introduction and instructions on singing rounds plus the appended history, advice for directors, additional suggestions of rounds, and a title/first-line index help to make this offering useful for most collections." ...School Library Journal, August, 1999, Mollie Bynum
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"Teachers will find this collection useful in teaching new songs to children and in creating activities." ...Church & Synagogue Library Association, 2001
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"This book for all ages is a collection of eighty rounds, lyrics and music about friendship, nature, giving thanks, music, silliness, and jokes." ...PBS.org Teachers source, 2001
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"The Round Book is a welcome addition to school, daycare center, summer camp, Sunday School, and community library musicbook collections." ...Children's Bookwatch, June 1999
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"This interesting book contains a brief history of the round, suggestions for round leaders, the words and music for 80 rounds, and a list of resources." ...Christian School Teacher, 2001
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Storytelling World Honor
2000
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Bowker Best Books for Children
2002
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Children's Catalog 19th ed.
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Best Books for Children 7th ed.
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