Growing Readers: Humpty Who? Giveaway

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.

{ 61 comments }

1 Cindi March 21, 2008 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 March 21, 2008 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 March 21, 2008 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 March 22, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Hmmm…3 blind Mice

5 Jen March 22, 2008 at 10:05 pm

“You are my sunshine!” :)

6 Tara March 22, 2008 at 10:30 pm

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

7 JenO March 22, 2008 at 10:36 pm

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

nifferjeno at gmail dot com

8 Ang March 22, 2008 at 10:47 pm

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

9 stampedwithgrace March 22, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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

10 Mary @ Adventures in Mommyland March 22, 2008 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 March 22, 2008 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 March 22, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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. March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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. March 23, 2008 at 3:47 am

My favorite would be “Three Blind Mice”.

19 Carmen March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 6:21 am

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

22 Marcia March 23, 2008 at 7:53 am

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

23 Dianna K. Ball March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 8:01 am

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

26 kira March 23, 2008 at 8:03 am

I would have to go with “Jack and Jill”

27 Meg March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 9:10 am

Baa Baa Black Sheep!

30 Lisa March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 9:49 am

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

32 Leah Richards March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 10:11 am

My daughter loves The Itsy Bitsy Spider

34 Naomi March 23, 2008 at 11:38 am

I love Itsy Bitsy Spider…

35 Ann March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 12:35 pm

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

thanks for sharing this. :)

38 Maeflower March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star love it! :)

44 Stephanie V March 23, 2008 at 5:05 pm

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

45 Lucy March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 7:40 pm

Jack Sprat was a favorite when I was little.

48 Megan March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 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 March 23, 2008 at 10:05 pm

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

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