Sing with Me! Action Songs Every Child Should Know

A baker’s dozen of mostly familiar nursery rhymes and songs, each with accompanying actions, features in a picture book brought to dreamlike life in Stoop’s mixed-media illustrations. Children cavort with bears, bunnies, and other creatures, frosting multi-tier cakes for “Pat-a-Cake,” riding in a yellow bus that looks part animal itself for “Wheels on the Bus,” and joining hands in a wintry field for “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.” Brief instructions for the songs’ movements accompany the lyrics, and the soft plywood graining and sweetly surreal imagery of Stoop’s artwork create a soothing, bedtime-ready atmosphere throughout. Ages 1–4. Illustrator’s agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (July)