Growing Readers: Humpty Who? Giveaway

by Kristen McLane on March 21, 2008

9780761143680.jpgLullabies are often the first stories that our children are exposed to as infants. As our children grow into toddlers and preschoolers they graduate to nursery rhymes complete with finger plays and body motions. As parents we love the familiarity of the tunes that we grew up with but we don’t always remember the important things…like the words! Maybe like me you’ve muddled through a tune of Frère Jacques making up your own French words along the way. Or perhaps your inquisitive mind has always pondered the definition of a tuffet.

To the rescue is Humpty Who?: Crib Sheets for the Nursery for Clueless Moms and Dads. Humpty Who? is a collection of 80 classic poems, songs, lullabies, rounds and riddles. What makes Humpty Who? unique from other nursery rhyme treasuries is the insightful commentary. One of my favorite discoveries was a recipe for pease porridge. As a bonus the book also comes with a 35-song CD.

Win It! Workman Publishing has generously offered one copy of Humpty Who? to giveaway. Enter by commenting with the name of your favorite lullaby or nursery rhyme. The giveaway will end at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25th. I will notify the winner via e-mail. Stay tuned this week for more giveaways.

Don’t forget to enter my Gallop!, Camp Out! and How Come? book giveaways.

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1 Cindi 03.21.08 at 6:45 pm

Hello, What a fun contest. I have never seen this collection and with a CD. I really like “John, Jacob, Jingle…..Schmidt” a lot! Please enter me in your delightful drawing. Thanks,Cindi

2 Sadie 03.21.08 at 9:26 pm

What fun! My girls love singing! We often sing “Alice the Camel” because of the bouncy nature of it…but my girls absolute favorites are “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”!

3 Joanna 03.21.08 at 10:00 pm

I have never heard of this book, but I would love to add it to my daughters night time reading..Please enter me in the give away…Our favorites are…”Hey Diddle Diddle”, “Jack Be Nimble” and “Old King Cole”…Thanks!

4 Danielle S 03.22.08 at 6:31 pm

Hmmm…3 blind Mice

5 Jen 03.22.08 at 10:05 pm

“You are my sunshine!” :)

6 Tara 03.22.08 at 10:30 pm

Is Mary had a little lamb a nursery rhyme? or how about little Miss muffett?

7 JenO 03.22.08 at 10:36 pm

My grandma was always singing “do you know the muffin man,” so that’s probably my favorite! :)

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8 Ang 03.22.08 at 10:47 pm

“Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean.” That one cracks me up.

9 stampedwithgrace 03.22.08 at 11:06 pm

We like The Itsy Bitsy Spider.
looks like a fun giveaway!

10 Mary @ Adventures in Mommyland 03.22.08 at 11:08 pm

I like to sing baby beluga to my daughter. ‘baby beluga in the deep blue sea, she swims so high and she swims so free, heaven above and sea below and a little white whale on the go’ great giveaway, thanks

11 Samantha 03.22.08 at 11:15 pm

I just saw this book at Babies ‘R Us yesterday and was thinking I could use it! I like “HIckory Dickory Dock.” Thanks!

12 america 03.22.08 at 11:19 pm

Hush Little Baby…. Mama’s going to show you a hummingbird, it is a great adaptation to the material oriented tradtional version. I love it and I actually memorized it and it is also the only lullabye I know from beginning to end.

13 Elizabeth 03.23.08 at 12:07 am

My 2 year old daughter just discovered “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, and it’s so cute to watch her try to make her fingers do the spider going up the waterspout! This sounds like a great book to help me remember more nursery rhymes.

14 Jennifer 03.23.08 at 12:09 am

My son is only 7 months so I’m just starting to try to remember all of these!

He loves The Mighty Duke of York.

15 laura ch. 03.23.08 at 2:21 am

I always loved ‘the itsy bitsy spider’. The hand movements that go along with it make it even more fun!

16 Sarah 03.23.08 at 2:25 am

Oh I’d love this! I love the poems “The cow jumped over the moon” and “Winken Blinken and Nod” :)

17 Megan 03.23.08 at 2:32 am

This is a very nice giveaway. My favorite lullaby is All the Pretty Horses. This book looks like it would be a lot of fun.

18 Jessie R. 03.23.08 at 3:47 am

My favorite would be “Three Blind Mice”.

19 Carmen 03.23.08 at 5:24 am

How fun! We love Baa Baa Black Sheep ’round my house. When my Gracie was little, she would say “Bob Bob Black Sheep”. Still laughing!

20 Carmen 03.23.08 at 5:26 am

You must be getting a kick out of some of these comments….do some of these even count as nursery rhymes? This would be a great resource for families indeed!

21 Shannon 03.23.08 at 6:21 am

I love to sing “You are my sunshine” to my son.

22 Marcia 03.23.08 at 7:53 am

I like to sing “You are my Sunshine” and “Twinkle Twinkle” to my daughter.

23 Dianna K. Ball 03.23.08 at 7:53 am

Hmmm – well, it’s not MY favorite per se, but my daughter and I sing Patty Cake ALL THE TIME. It’s driving me a little batty, but she loves it, so….

In any case, learning more to teach her would not be a bad thing; thanks!

24 Katie 03.23.08 at 7:56 am

We always sing the “Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker’s man…” one. The kids like making the hand motions while we sing.

25 Mommy Bee 03.23.08 at 8:01 am

We love “You Are My Sunshine”. My heart melts to hear my daughter’s sweet voice sing it.

26 kira 03.23.08 at 8:03 am

I would have to go with “Jack and Jill”

27 Meg 03.23.08 at 8:17 am

I think I like Hey, Diddle Diddle the best. But there are many I like….and a few that freak me out. :0) Thanks so much! I could really enjoy this book. ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )

28 artsweet 03.23.08 at 8:25 am

It’s a sign of how much I NEED THIS BOOK that I cannot think of a single nursery rhyme. Does “This little piggy went to market” count? That always gets a giggle out of my son.

29 Mama Zen 03.23.08 at 9:10 am

Baa Baa Black Sheep!

30 Lisa 03.23.08 at 9:29 am

Our favorite lullaby is the old Jefferson Airplane song, “the baby tree.” My 7 month old son loves it. He also really likes this little piggy. I had to go online to find lyrics, though, so I could really use this book!

31 Julie Mead 03.23.08 at 9:49 am

I love ‘you are my sunshine’-if only I could sing it without tearing up for once.

32 Leah Richards 03.23.08 at 10:07 am

My first baby is on the way…this book would really come in handy! I love “You are My Sunshine” so much….and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” is a classic, too. Thanks!

33 Bree 03.23.08 at 10:11 am

My daughter loves The Itsy Bitsy Spider

34 Naomi 03.23.08 at 11:38 am

I love Itsy Bitsy Spider…

35 Ann 03.23.08 at 12:31 pm

We love the Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle twinkle little star, this is such a great contest, we would love to win this.

36 Karyn 03.23.08 at 12:34 pm

We are fans of Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle, Twinkle. Probably because those are the only ones I can recall!

Karyn

37 Ivan Girl - Dear Me 03.23.08 at 12:35 pm

favorites are: You Are My Sunshine and Itsy Bitsy Spider! :)

thanks for sharing this. :)

38 Maeflower 03.23.08 at 1:09 pm

The book looks great. Now I just need one for clueless moms in general. My favorite nursey rhyme is Jack and Jill. The love the ole time medicine treatment it contains.

39 Steph 03.23.08 at 1:19 pm

Our favorite lullabye to sing together is Twinkle Twinkle Litle Star. Its the one she can sing all the words to.

40 jenni 03.23.08 at 1:42 pm

I like “All the Pretty Little Horses”, “Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf (Sleep, Little One, Sleep)” and “Winken, Blinken, and Nod”.

41 Julianna 03.23.08 at 2:11 pm

As a child, my favorite was “Peter, Peter, Pumkin Eater…” I think I liked the sound of all those hard P’s. Now, I love to sing to my 3-month-old daughter “All the Pretty Little Horses” and “You Are My Sunshine”.

42 Belinda 03.23.08 at 2:46 pm

I love to sing to my little guys, but I wish i knew more than ” You are my sunshine”. I often end up making up my own songs.
This book would really help me out. Thanks!

43 Doreen 03.23.08 at 3:09 pm

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star love it! :)

44 Stephanie V 03.23.08 at 5:05 pm

Twinkle twinkle little star and The wheels on the bus calm my little boy for a moment.

45 Lucy 03.23.08 at 5:36 pm

I have to say my favorites are you are my sunshine and the wheels on the bus, sweet and fun.

46 Ellie 03.23.08 at 5:50 pm

My favorite is twinkle twinkle. Interestingly my son doesn’t like Humpty Dumpty- He gets sad when Humpty has the great fall.

47 Erin 03.23.08 at 7:40 pm

Jack Sprat was a favorite when I was little.

48 Megan 03.23.08 at 8:06 pm

My favorite is the mockingbird song, but I can never remember the words after about three lines, so I just keep singing those over and over. I need this book before my daughter figures out what I’m saying.

49 brandy w 03.23.08 at 9:25 pm

twinkle twinkle little star. itsy bitsy spider. i need this book i do not know half the words to lullabys or rhymes

50 Lisa 03.23.08 at 10:05 pm

My favorite is 3 blind mice… now my girls will disagree… they swear my favorite is itsy bitsy spider… lol..

51 Suzie 03.24.08 at 3:54 am

Our favorite is Hush Little Baby

52 Susan Chester 03.24.08 at 8:23 am

My favorite is Hush Little Baby, while my grandaughter prefers the rowdier I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. I would love to win this, I get bored with singing the same old songs.

53 Judy Aschenbrenner 03.24.08 at 8:40 am

This little piggy went to market…

54 Ruth 03.24.08 at 1:52 pm

I don’t know why, but I have always loved see saw marjory daw…just a great cadence. I sing it to my daughter when I rock her, and she loves it too

55 jen g. 03.24.08 at 2:51 pm

It would have to be “5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” and “I’ve been working on the railroad.” Not sure these are lullabyes or nursery rhymes, but my daughter loves to sing these all the time!!

56 Heather 03.24.08 at 2:53 pm

My favorite lullaby is Hush Little Baby. I sing it to my daughter every night but make up my own words half way through.

57 Heather & John 03.24.08 at 3:25 pm

I would have to say Mary Had a Little Lamb! But our youngest is a big fan of Row Row Your Boat.

58 Shelly 03.24.08 at 3:47 pm

My favorite is Frere Jacques

59 Brooke 03.25.08 at 8:04 am

I sing the ABC song as a lullaby to my girls.

60 Lindsie 03.25.08 at 9:42 am

Mary had a little lamb.

61 Vicki Wurgler 03.25.08 at 3:29 pm

Itsy Bitsy Spider is a hit with the kids and with me!

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