Frog Went A-Courtin'

“A favorite old nursery ballad now appears in resplendent new dress. . . . Illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky somehow manages to combine quaintness with sophistication and his doughty frog, the coy mouse . . . and others make charming company.”--The New York Times Book Review

Children's Books

Langstaff, John

Literature & Fiction

HMH Books for Young Readers

From inside cover flap: This collection has been compiled in response to numerous requests for words and music to the songs taught by John Langstaff, a well-known concert artist, over many years in camps, classrooms, on records, radio, and television. Chosen especially for their suitability for group singing, the songs represent every type of traditional music, from sea chanteys and other work songs to lullabies and laments. Some will be familiar and some will be new, but all are easy to pick up and fun to sing. Infectious tunes, swinging rhythms, and catchy refrains characterize the folk songs in this book. New piano arrangements have been provided that are simple enough to play easily, and basic guitar harmonies have been included for those who prefer them.

Hi! Ho! the Rattlin' Bog, and Other Folk Songs for Group Singing.

Arts & Photography

Music

Harcourt,brace & World

The old animal counting song. “Numbers for knee highs couldn’t be more fun. . . . Also has music for the song at the end. . . . Feodor Rojankovsky’s charming illustrations are in full color and black and white.”--Kirkus Reviews

Over in the Meadow

Animals

Harcourt

Clarion Books

The old animal counting song. “Numbers for knee highs couldn’t be more fun. . . . Also has music for the song at the end. . . . Feodor Rojankovsky’s charming illustrations are in full color and black and white.”--Kirkus Reviews This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read-Aloud Poetry).

Oh A-Hunting We Will Go

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Houghton/Mifflin

From the Foreword by the author--The Story of this Story...Nobody knows how or when this story really started. We do know that it was written down in Scotland more than 400 years ago. But it has always been the kind of story that was told and sung to children, instead of being read to them. The grandfathers and grandmothers sang it to the mothers and fathers, and the mothers and fathers sang it to their children, and finally it got to us. Sometimes the grownups might forget some of the words, and the children would make up words they liked better, and put them in the song. And so the ballad, or story, on down through all these hundreds of years, always changed a little bit as each new person tried to sing it. Everyone like his way best....The story of the "Frog and the Mouse" became a part of America, and belongs to all of us today.

Frog Went A - Courtin'

scholastic

Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse

Classics

Demco Media

Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go

Aladdin

Old and new verses for a popular folk song about hunting and capturing an animal--and then letting him go.

Parker, Nancy Winslow

Atheneum

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Books by Langstaff, John

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Frog Went A-Courtin'

Hi! Ho! the Rattlin' Bog, and Other Folk Songs for Group Singing.

Over in the Meadow

Frog Went A-Courtin'

Over in the Meadow

Oh A-Hunting We Will Go

Frog Went A - Courtin'

Frog Went A-Courtin'

Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go

Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go