Mother Earth's Children

Heather Jarmon

Softbound

$12.95

After Mother Earth has kept the seeds safe during their Winter sleep, she now calls for their other friends to come and help them grow. This story is both written in verse and illustrated with soft watercolour illustrations by Heather Jarman. Simply lovely.

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Wilma Ellersiek

Inside Spiral Bound

$28.00

Long awaited, it will be long loved! Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter brings with it the same love and warmth of Ellersiek's Spring and Summer volume and her incomparable Giving Love, Bringing Joy. Anyone with young children in their lives will discover a new world of joy in Autumn and Winter - one with crackly leaves and crunchy frost, one with beauty all around. This beautiful book is a gift to children and the adults who love them - we warmly invite you to enter its world.

Gesture Games for Spring and Summer
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

Wilma Ellersiek

Inside spiral bound

$28.00

These songs, hand gestures and movement games foster a joy and enthusiasm that leads our children toward a love and understanding of nature -- and no wonder, as they were created by the author of Giving Love, Bringing Joy. What an inspiring work! You'll love these as much as the children do.

Gesture Games for Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter
Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Movement Games for Children in Kindergarten and the Lower Grades

A Learning CD

Performed by Connie Manson
Accompanied by Ilian Wilwerth

$15.95

Beautifully performed songs from Gesture Games for Spring and Summer and Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter -- for you to learn to sing with the children in your care.

Contains 19 songs of Spring/Summer and 18 Autumn/Winter songs.

Gesture Games Set

Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter - Book
Gesture Games for Spring and Summer - Book
Gesture Games for Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter - Audio CD

Price if purchased separately: $71.95

Set Price: $68.95

Giving Love - Bringing Joy
Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth

Wilma Ellersiek

For Children between Birth & Nine

$28.00

Here is a beautiful collection of original songs, hand games, touch games, lullabies, and, well, just about everything you could want to create a joyful moment with a child or class of children. I have personally never seen an offering quite like this one - Ellersiek's gift is that the tapestry of her songs and games actually awakens love within the adult which then streams out in joy to the child(ren) with whom the adult plays and sings. These are wonderful! If you have young children in your life, try these. They are like liquid drops of golden sunshine.

Giving Love - Bringing Joy - CD
Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies in the Mood of the Fifth
A Learning CD

Wilma Ellersiek

Performed by Connie Manson

Poetic Translation by Kundry Wilwerth

$10.95

A beautiful way to teach yourself the lullabies, hand games and simple songs of Giving Love - Bringing Joy. Connie Manson sings all fifteen of of these very special songs with a simplicity and lilting grace that evoke the love we carry for our children. There's a bonus song, too!

Giving Love - Bringing Joy
Book & CD Together

Softbound

Price if purchased separately: $38.95

Set Price: $37.00

Clump-a-Dump and Snickle-Snack
Pentatonic Children's Songs by Johanne Russ

Translated by Lyn S. Willerth

Softbound

$6.50

This lovely collection of songs became an almost constant companion when our children were young. We sang just about all of them -- some, like the lullabies, were heard every day; others, like the songs for Christmas, Michaelmas, Easter and the seasons, became hallmarks of joyous times and occasions.

For sheer beauty and delight, and for songs that both children and parents love, Clump-a-Dump and Snickle-Snack is just the ticket!

Let's Dance and Sing
Story Games for Children

Arranged by Kundry Willerth

Softbound

$12.95

Let's Dance and Sing offers up some of the most beloved circle games of the Waldorf kindergarten. All of them tell little stories, some of them reflect fairy tales told during story time. The music is charming, engaging, memorable (the minute I saw these songs again, I started humming some of my favorites, so well did they live in my memory after nearly 20 years!). You'll love then, the children in your care will love them. A classic collection.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Daffodil (a personal favorite of mine!)
• Eastertrain
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Seven Little Kids
• Birthday
• Aschenputtel
• The Carrot
• The Spinning Game
• St. George - A Play
• Stone Soup
• Old Joseph Goes Walking
• King Kaspar
• Christmas Night

The Winding Road
Family treasury of poems and verses

compiled by Matthew Barton

Softbound

$26.00

Matthew Barton has gifted us with the most sensitively gathered collection of verse available in print. With poems for children from toddlers to teenagers, The Winding Road has beautiful verse for all interests, ages, and situations. You simply can't do better than to have a copy of this book at hand, ready for you to dip into when looking for "just the right poem" to share with your child -- I promise you, you'll find it.

Over 200 poems, from Gaelic Blessings to Navajo prayers, from William Black to Eleanor Farjeon and Billy Collins, on the following themes:

• The Clay that Shapes: Before Birth
• A Shock of Light: Birth
• Raining Double Blessings Down: Blessing, Naming and Baptism
  
• To Shine on Earth: A Young Child's Brithday
• Arise, Arise! Morning Verses with Young Children
• Bread Is a Lovely Thing to Eat: Graces
• Sleep's Unlatched Door: Evening and Prayer
  
• Feet Find a Way: First Milestones
• Sorrow's Springs: Illness and Upset
• A Wind Where the Rose Was: Bereavement
  
• The Ground to Stand On: Stepping Out and Growing Away
• I Am Good Fortune: Leaving Home
  
• Waldorf School Verses
  

What Julianna Could See

Paul Margulies

Watercolor illustrations
by Famke Zonneveld

Softbound

$11.95

Sometimes when we do small things, things just for a particular child, things only meant to stay within our own small family or circle of friends, sometimes these things have a greatness that bursts beyond the cozy place we have made for it. Then these things become a gift for everyone.

What Julianna Could See is one such small thing. Originally written by Paul Margulies for his daughter Julianna, it is now a glowing, colorful gateway to wonder for all children. And a delight to the adults to are allowed to share it!

Julianna will live in your heart and in the hearts of your children. The gentle rhymes and evocative paintings will spark any imagination as they wrap you and yours in the goodness that is our world.

Julianna could see
In the same field for hours
The wind in the trees
The sun in the flowers

The Wynstones Kindergarten Series

If purchased separately:
$92.70

Complete Set Price:
$86.70

Gateways
A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$14.95

Morning, Evening, Birthdays, Fairytales! The changing times and things of wonder that make the world go round! In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 31 poems for morning, evening, birthdays and fairy tales
• 40 songs about morning, evening, birthdays and fairy tales - with music
• 3 birthday stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Spring
A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$14.95

Awake, awake, it's Springtime! In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 50 poems celebrating spring
• 30 springtime songs with music
• 9 fairy tales and nature stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Summer
A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$14.95

Ah! Summer! Dear little violet, open your eyes! I'm busy, busy, busy said the bee! In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 59 poems celebrating summer
• 27 summer songs with music
• 13 fairy tales and nature stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Autumn
A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$14.95

It's golden in the treetops! Autumn's on it's way! In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 59 poems celebrating autumn
• 30 springtime songs with music
• 6 fairy tales and nature stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Winter
A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$14.95

Let's go walking in the snow! Let's put our mittens on! In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 52 poems celebrating winter
• 31 wintery songs with music
• 10 fairy tales and nature stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Spindrift
A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children

Wynstones Press

Softbound

$17.95

Celebrate the animals, the carpenters, the trees and mother making pancakes! Spindrift is a rich and wonderful celebration of daily life. In this volume of treasured songs, poems and stories from Waldorf kindergartens around the world, you will find:

• An outstanding essay on the value of music in a young child's life
• 156 poems celebrating all sorts of things
• 29 songs with music
• 43 fairy tales and nature stories
• recommended reading for parents and teachers

Lavender's Blue Dilly Dilly
Enchanting Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose Songs and Singing Games for Wonder-Filled Dance and Play

Songbook & CD
with Guitar Chords

Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Spiral bound

$21.95

Every nursery rhyme I've ever loved and sung to our children is here, accompanied Mary Thienes-Schunemann's soft, heart-opening voice on a learning CD. This is a beautiful collection of traditional children's songs and games - timeless, joyfilled, life affirming.

Today's children are starved for singing, just as they are for touch, story telling, and play. . . . This songbook is truly a treasure, one that should be in the hands of every parent, care-giver, and teacher. This book fills a critical need in American childhood (and parenthood) today!

- Joseph Chilton Pearce, Author:
Magical Child, Evolution's End, and The Biology of Transcendence

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Sing a Song of Seasons
Singing with Children Series

Songs from the seasons of nature to sing with young children

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Arranged by Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

Sing the new songs! Sing with Joy! . . . not only with your tongue, but with your life!

- St. Augustine

So begins - and rightly so! - this gift of a songbook for parents, teachers and children. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has created exactly the songbooks that I have for years heard adults who care for children begging for. As with her other songbooks, this one is packed with beautiful, mescal, expressive songs to share with young children - AND it comes with CD you can use to hear Mary sing all the songs in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs and share them with your beloved children - who will grow with smiles and gladness and song at their singing.

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Sing a Song with Baby
Singing with Children Series

Delightful bounces and body games from fingers to toes to sing with your wee ones

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

By Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

For a caress is abode and shelter;
I caress the child
so as to protect her
and bring her joy . . .
Thereby she receives a sign
on the velvet of her face.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The City in the Desert"

The songs in The Singing Baby are indeed caresses - of laughter, the joy of discover, of head-to-toe delight and soft soothing wonder. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has created exactly the songbooks that I have for years heard adults who care for children begging for. This songbook offers up a feast of parent-baby games, bounces and joy - all beautiful and deliciously musical. It comes with a CD you can use to hear Mary sing all the songs in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs and share them with your beloved children - who will bring your their giggles and squeals and joy again and again and again.

One of our customers writes:

At the time we ordered the songbooks from you, my new son was about two months old and Grace, my 2+ year old daughter, seemed to be doing the "big sister withdrawal" that older siblings sometimes do . . . The music, and the beautiful drawings, drew her in right away. Especially The Singing Baby, which incorporates so much play and touching, was just what we needed to reconnect. Of course, when she was avoiding physical contact it was really that she wanted it very much because she saw how much Luke was getting. This allowed us to get close again in a happy, fun way.

- RD in Massachusetts

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The Wonder of Lullabies
Singing with Children Series

Lullabies from around the world to sing with children of all ages

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Arranged & Recorded by Mary Thienes-Schunemann, Musician and Waldorf Educator

Songbook and CD

$21.95

. . . to all the children under the Sun, Moon and Stars

-Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Here are the songs mothers round the world use to grace their children at the close of each day. Mary Thienes-Schunemann has gathered lullabies from all over our dear planet, like glowing pearls on a necklace of love. This grace-filled songbook comes with a CD you can use to hear Mary sing - ever so sweetly - each lullaby in a voice so pure and simple it can bring tears (of joy and gratitude) to your eyes. And thus, in joy and beauty you can learn these songs to guide your children into sleep - and you can watch as your children smile into the arms of their angels.

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The Christmas Star
Well-loved songs for the Christmas season from Advent to Three Kings Day to sing with your beloved children

Mary Thienes-Schunemann

A Naturally You Can Sing Production

Songbook and audio CD
Parent/Teacher Resource

BACK IN PRINT!!

$21.95

In olden times, when a person wished to express something sacred and holy, they were not allowed to speak about it, they could only sing. It was recognized that singing contained a higher power than speech and was a holy activity. There are still echoes of this ancient practice in some cultures of the world today. The memory is still present that how we use our voices to sing and speak can contribute to healing and peace, in our hearts and in the world.

- Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Tears filled my eyes several times as I listened to the CD that accompanies this extraordinary song book. It was not just that the music and singing were so very beautiful, nor was it that the songs were so well chosen, nor even that they brought back some of the best memories of my life. It was that Mary's music is all these things and something much more as well - The Christmas Star is quite simply a sun-drenched outpouring of hope and love. What could have been just one more nice collection of Christmas carols has, through her healing artistry and deep sensitivity, come into the world a gleaming, golden gift of life offered to our children and their children beyond.

I can't think of a better gift for your children, your family, yourself - a true celebration of the Light of Love kindled in the darkest season.

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In the Light of a Child
A Journey Through the 52 Weeks of the Year in Both Hemispheres
For Children and the Child in Each Human Being

Michael Hedley Burton

$14.95

Michael Burton has created something very special for our children (and for us, as well). Taking Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul as his inspiration, he has crafted 52 verses to carry children throughout the year. Each verse touches on the feeling qualities of its particular place within the seasons of our Earth and in clear and loving language helps anyone forge a firmer connection to the natural world. At the same time, these verses also reflect the various qualities of Divine Love, as it manifests within each season. This uniting of heaven and earth within the seasonal round is poignantly beautiful - and very highly recommend for the child in all of us.

Haiku Picturebook for Children

Text by Keisuke Nishimoto

Illustrated by Kozo Shimizu

$14.95
Hardbound

The haiku in this book are chosen from the gifts Japan's most honored haiku masters - Buson, Issa, Basho and others. They are beautiful, nearly perfect little pictures to heighten our awareness of the world, of life. The accompanying watercolor illustrations in my mind set just the right tone, evoke just the right feeling to go with the poems. This book will remain an exquisite gift to any child fortunate enough to be offered a copy. Wonderful for any age after 5. (Note to purists: the translations are not always in the 5-7-5 form, but they speak with a graceful simplicity that honors the intent of the original.)