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Julie Andrews' treasury for all seasons : poems and songs to celebrate the year / selected by Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton.

Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: 2-11228 | Hatchette AudioPublisher: [New York] : Hachette Audio, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 audio disc (approximately 1.5 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (192 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm)Content type:
  • spoken word
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • audio
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781619692282
  • 1619692287
  • 9780316040518
  • 0316040517
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The months / Sara Coleridge -- WINTER : January : New Year's Day / Rachel Field -- New Year's resolutions / Bruce Lansky -- Martin Luther King Day / Myra Cohn Livingston -- I dream a world / Langston Hughes -- The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost -- Cardinal / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- The snowflake / Walter de la Mare -- White fields / James Stephens -- Kittens / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Skating / Herbert Asquith -- Happy winter, steamy tub / Karen Gundersheimer ; February : Ground Hog Day / Lilian Moore -- New Year's Day! / Kam Mak -- Chinese New Year / Anonymous -- To you / Karla Kuskin -- I made my dog a valentine / Jack Prelutsky -- A valentine / Julie Andrews -- Ode to us / Emma Walton Hamilton -- In fancy dress / Tony Walton -- George Washington's birthday: wondering / Bobbi Katz -- Abraham Lincoln / Mildred Meigs -- We cannot all be Washingtons and Lincolns / Anonymous.
SUMMER : June : June / John Updike -- Skylark / Katrina Porteous -- Today / Billy Collins -- Flags / Julie Andrews -- Hang out the flag / James S. Tippett -- in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade -- For Father's Day / Rachel Field -- Experiment / lyrics and music by Cole Porter -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- Midsummer night / Rupert S. Holland ; July : To July / Anonymous -- Going down hill on a bicycle / Henry Charles Beeching -- Fireworks / James Reeves -- Four of July / Robert Newton Peck -- Natural history / E.B. White -- The frog chorus / Rupert S. Holland -- Equestrienne / Rachel Field -- Sand house / J. Patrick Lewis -- Reading: Summer / Myra Cohn Livingston ; August : A boy's summer / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A boy and his dad / Edgar A. Guest -- Analysis of baseball / May Swenson -- Ramadan has begun / Jenny Whitehead -- I will go with my father a-ploughing / Joseph Campbell -- Nocturne for late summer / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- What shall I pack in the box marked "Summer"? / Bobbi Katz.
FALL : September : September / Helen Hunt Jackson -- First day of school / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros -- Homework / Russell Hoban -- grandmother / Ray A. Young Bear -- Some things about grandpas / Alice Low -- Rosh ha-Shanah Eve / Harry Philip -- How to get through the memorial service / Richard J. Margolis ; October : Columbus / Ogden Nash -- To Autumn / John Keats -- Apple song / Frances Frost -- Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- The wind in a frolic / William Howitt -- Hallowe'en / Rupert S. Holland -- Skeletons / Valerie Worth -- Pumpkin / Valerie Worth ; November : November / John Updike -- Autumn fires / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The First Thanksgiving / Jack Prelutsky -- Thanksgiving / Ivy O. Eastwick -- Father, we thank Thee / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite -- I ate too much / Jack Prelutsky -- Jack Frost / Helen Bayley Davis ; December lights : December : Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher -- First night of Hanukkah / Ruth Roston -- Latke time / Michele Krueger -- A Sacred Place / Anonymous -- For Christmas / Rachel Field -- Christmas / Julie Andrews -- little tree / e.e. cummings -- Christmas goes to sea / Rachel Field -- A Christmas Carol / Christina Rossetti -- How do you get to be Santa? / Emma Walton Hamilton -- The Holy Boy / lyrics by Herbert S. Brown; music by John Ireland -- Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- The waiting game / John Mole -- Kwanzaa days / Jenny Whitehead -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Sacred duty / Sami Bentil -- New Year's Eve / Myra Cohn Livingston.
Other Celebrations & Special Occasions : The Sabbath/Shabbat : Sabbath bells / John Clare -- Havdalah / Carol Adler -- Sunday morning breakfast time / lyrics and music by Cole Porter ; Birthdays : Happy birthday from your loving brother / Bruce Lansky -- Good-bye, six--Hello, seven / Judith Viorst -- Half birthday / Amy Krouse Rosenthal -- If we didn't have birthdays / Dr. Seuss ; New Babies : Étude réaliste / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Six weeks old / Christopher Morley -- Perambulator poem / David McCord ; Coming of Age/Rites of Passage : A quiet thing / lyrics and music by Fred Ebb, John Kander -- Sunrise, sunset / lyrics and music by Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock -- Nothing like the sun / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Death Is nothing at all / Henry Scott Holland -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- May the road rise to meet you / Anonymous -- Index : Holidays & celebrations & their corresponding poems.
Read by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.Summary: A vast array of poems old and new joyously celebrates each special day of the year, telling of New Year's resolutions, Valentine's Day love, Easter parades, Fourth of July fireworks, and more. From the cold of winter to the new hope of spring, the brisk fall to the steamy summer, Caldecott Honor illustrator Marjorie Priceman's vibrate watercolor paintings ring in every month of the year, bringing each season to joyful life. Featuring verse from favorites like Walt Whitman, Jack Prelutsky, and Langston Hughes and poetic lyrics from the likes of Cole Porter and Oscar Hammerstein, plus heartfelt introductions by Julie Andrews describing favorite family holiday moments, this is the perfect collection for families to share together. Ages 5+.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A vast array of poems old and new joyously celebrates each special day of the year, telling of New Year's resolutions, Valentine's Day love, Easter parades, Fourth of July fireworks, and more. Featuring verse from favorites like Walt Whitman, Jack Prelutsky, and Langston Hughes, and poetic lyrics from the likes of Cole Porter and Oscar Hammerstein, plus heartfelt introductions by Julie Andrews describing favorite family holiday moments.

Unabridged.

Accompanying book published New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012, and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.

Kit created from seperately published items.

Read by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.

The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The months / Sara Coleridge -- WINTER : January : New Year's Day / Rachel Field -- New Year's resolutions / Bruce Lansky -- Martin Luther King Day / Myra Cohn Livingston -- I dream a world / Langston Hughes -- The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost -- Cardinal / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- The snowflake / Walter de la Mare -- White fields / James Stephens -- Kittens / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Skating / Herbert Asquith -- Happy winter, steamy tub / Karen Gundersheimer ; February : Ground Hog Day / Lilian Moore -- New Year's Day! / Kam Mak -- Chinese New Year / Anonymous -- To you / Karla Kuskin -- I made my dog a valentine / Jack Prelutsky -- A valentine / Julie Andrews -- Ode to us / Emma Walton Hamilton -- In fancy dress / Tony Walton -- George Washington's birthday: wondering / Bobbi Katz -- Abraham Lincoln / Mildred Meigs -- We cannot all be Washingtons and Lincolns / Anonymous.

SUMMER : June : June / John Updike -- Skylark / Katrina Porteous -- Today / Billy Collins -- Flags / Julie Andrews -- Hang out the flag / James S. Tippett -- in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade -- For Father's Day / Rachel Field -- Experiment / lyrics and music by Cole Porter -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- Midsummer night / Rupert S. Holland ; July : To July / Anonymous -- Going down hill on a bicycle / Henry Charles Beeching -- Fireworks / James Reeves -- Four of July / Robert Newton Peck -- Natural history / E.B. White -- The frog chorus / Rupert S. Holland -- Equestrienne / Rachel Field -- Sand house / J. Patrick Lewis -- Reading: Summer / Myra Cohn Livingston ; August : A boy's summer / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A boy and his dad / Edgar A. Guest -- Analysis of baseball / May Swenson -- Ramadan has begun / Jenny Whitehead -- I will go with my father a-ploughing / Joseph Campbell -- Nocturne for late summer / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- What shall I pack in the box marked "Summer"? / Bobbi Katz.

FALL : September : September / Helen Hunt Jackson -- First day of school / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros -- Homework / Russell Hoban -- grandmother / Ray A. Young Bear -- Some things about grandpas / Alice Low -- Rosh ha-Shanah Eve / Harry Philip -- How to get through the memorial service / Richard J. Margolis ; October : Columbus / Ogden Nash -- To Autumn / John Keats -- Apple song / Frances Frost -- Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- The wind in a frolic / William Howitt -- Hallowe'en / Rupert S. Holland -- Skeletons / Valerie Worth -- Pumpkin / Valerie Worth ; November : November / John Updike -- Autumn fires / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The First Thanksgiving / Jack Prelutsky -- Thanksgiving / Ivy O. Eastwick -- Father, we thank Thee / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite -- I ate too much / Jack Prelutsky -- Jack Frost / Helen Bayley Davis ; December lights : December : Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher -- First night of Hanukkah / Ruth Roston -- Latke time / Michele Krueger -- A Sacred Place / Anonymous -- For Christmas / Rachel Field -- Christmas / Julie Andrews -- little tree / e.e. cummings -- Christmas goes to sea / Rachel Field -- A Christmas Carol / Christina Rossetti -- How do you get to be Santa? / Emma Walton Hamilton -- The Holy Boy / lyrics by Herbert S. Brown; music by John Ireland -- Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- The waiting game / John Mole -- Kwanzaa days / Jenny Whitehead -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Sacred duty / Sami Bentil -- New Year's Eve / Myra Cohn Livingston.

Other Celebrations & Special Occasions : The Sabbath/Shabbat : Sabbath bells / John Clare -- Havdalah / Carol Adler -- Sunday morning breakfast time / lyrics and music by Cole Porter ; Birthdays : Happy birthday from your loving brother / Bruce Lansky -- Good-bye, six--Hello, seven / Judith Viorst -- Half birthday / Amy Krouse Rosenthal -- If we didn't have birthdays / Dr. Seuss ; New Babies : Étude réaliste / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Six weeks old / Christopher Morley -- Perambulator poem / David McCord ; Coming of Age/Rites of Passage : A quiet thing / lyrics and music by Fred Ebb, John Kander -- Sunrise, sunset / lyrics and music by Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock -- Nothing like the sun / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Death Is nothing at all / Henry Scott Holland -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- May the road rise to meet you / Anonymous -- Index : Holidays & celebrations & their corresponding poems.

A vast array of poems old and new joyously celebrates each special day of the year, telling of New Year's resolutions, Valentine's Day love, Easter parades, Fourth of July fireworks, and more. From the cold of winter to the new hope of spring, the brisk fall to the steamy summer, Caldecott Honor illustrator Marjorie Priceman's vibrate watercolor paintings ring in every month of the year, bringing each season to joyful life. Featuring verse from favorites like Walt Whitman, Jack Prelutsky, and Langston Hughes and poetic lyrics from the likes of Cole Porter and Oscar Hammerstein, plus heartfelt introductions by Julie Andrews describing favorite family holiday moments, this is the perfect collection for families to share together. Ages 5+.

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