Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs, by Alan Katz and David Catrow
As with "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," I could not help but want to sing the traditional words to these songs as I was reading the book. I really enjoyed the new twist on these old favorites- especially Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Brother Mitch. My only concern was that children these days may not be familiar with the original songs, and therefore would not be able to sing the new words to the old tune. One way you could deal with this is by teaching the old songs, and when they children are comfortable with them you could then introduce the book and let them enjoy the new versions. You could also have them make up there own words to the old songs! I thought the illustrations in the book were fun, but maybe a bit overwhelming depending on the age of the child reading the book.
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Robyn: you are so right about kids today, a great many of them, not knowing the majority of the tunes in this book, which is a shame because the originals (lyrics with tunes) are so fantastic, so classic, and kids are missing out. And so they wouldn't "get" many of the new lyrics. They'd read and understand, maybe think much of it is funny, but part of the deal with this title is that they superimpose the music onto the new text to really get the flavor of the whole. Maybe we need to go back to teaching them these old songs.
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