Opening Song: Hello, how are you?
This book is so long. And there is so much dialogue. I love it, and one little girl in the front row loved it, but it was really not a good choice for a read-aloud. I still love the story, though, just as I did as a child!
Song: The Wheels on the Bus
This small, shy group didn't want to talk much, so I wound up pointing out the reasons why you should never take a shark to the dentist, give a moose a hat, or sit near a porcupine on the subway. One family loved it enough to check it out, but I'll want to read it again at a Family Story Time sometime - it's a good one for a mixed age group, I think. It definitely made the adults laugh, if not the kids!
Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (in English and Italian)
I found an old, yellowing cassette tape in a pile of stuff that came with us here from the interim library, and on it, there was an Italian version of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. The music and movements are the same, so we did about four rounds of that - the tape played the song about 8 times, but I cut it short because it was getting old.
I love the illustrations in this book. I'm not sure if it was a spoiler to announce from the start of the book that mice were dealing with an elephant, but a little girl did, and it didn't seem to matter. The colors alone draw everyone's eyes into this book, and though I'm not sure they understood the moral, the kids seem to like the resolution of the story.
Song: Chickadee
One little boy absolutely loved flapping his arms to this song. It was worth singing just to see that!
Song: Skinnamarink
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