Lullabies 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
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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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
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”!
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!
Hmmm…3 blind Mice
“You are my sunshine!”
Is Mary had a little lamb a nursery rhyme? or how about little Miss muffett?
My grandma was always singing “do you know the muffin man,” so that’s probably my favorite!
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“Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean.” That one cracks me up.
We like The Itsy Bitsy Spider.
looks like a fun giveaway!
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
I just saw this book at Babies ‘R Us yesterday and was thinking I could use it! I like “HIckory Dickory Dock.” Thanks!
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.
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.
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.
I always loved ‘the itsy bitsy spider’. The hand movements that go along with it make it even more fun!
Oh I’d love this! I love the poems “The cow jumped over the moon” and “Winken Blinken and Nod”
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.
My favorite would be “Three Blind Mice”.
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!
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!
I love to sing “You are my sunshine” to my son.
I like to sing “You are my Sunshine” and “Twinkle Twinkle” to my daughter.
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!
We always sing the “Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker’s man…” one. The kids like making the hand motions while we sing.
We love “You Are My Sunshine”. My heart melts to hear my daughter’s sweet voice sing it.
I would have to go with “Jack and Jill”
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 )
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.
Baa Baa Black Sheep!
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!
I love ‘you are my sunshine’-if only I could sing it without tearing up for once.
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!
My daughter loves The Itsy Bitsy Spider
I love Itsy Bitsy Spider…
We love the Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle twinkle little star, this is such a great contest, we would love to win this.
We are fans of Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle, Twinkle. Probably because those are the only ones I can recall!
Karyn
favorites are: You Are My Sunshine and Itsy Bitsy Spider!
thanks for sharing this.
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.
Our favorite lullabye to sing together is Twinkle Twinkle Litle Star. Its the one she can sing all the words to.
I like “All the Pretty Little Horses”, “Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf (Sleep, Little One, Sleep)” and “Winken, Blinken, and Nod”.
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”.
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!
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star love it!
Twinkle twinkle little star and The wheels on the bus calm my little boy for a moment.
I have to say my favorites are you are my sunshine and the wheels on the bus, sweet and fun.
My favorite is twinkle twinkle. Interestingly my son doesn’t like Humpty Dumpty- He gets sad when Humpty has the great fall.
Jack Sprat was a favorite when I was little.
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.
twinkle twinkle little star. itsy bitsy spider. i need this book i do not know half the words to lullabys or rhymes
My favorite is 3 blind mice… now my girls will disagree… they swear my favorite is itsy bitsy spider… lol..
Our favorite is Hush Little Baby
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.
This little piggy went to market…
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
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!!
My favorite lullaby is Hush Little Baby. I sing it to my daughter every night but make up my own words half way through.
I would have to say Mary Had a Little Lamb! But our youngest is a big fan of Row Row Your Boat.
My favorite is Frere Jacques
I sing the ABC song as a lullaby to my girls.
Mary had a little lamb.
Itsy Bitsy Spider is a hit with the kids and with me!
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