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In this enchanting collection, favourite bed- time songs for children ‘Rock – a – bye Baby’, ‘Bye Baby Bunting’. ‘Golden Slumbers’- mingle with less familiar lullabies from around the world. Added to these are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to your little ones, from Brahms’s ‘Lullaby’ to Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’, from Shakespeare’s lullaby for the fairy queen Titania to Langston Hughes ‘s lullaby for a “night black baby”. Here, too are nursery rhymes, and poems for older children by a wide variety of authors- Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, T.S.Elliott and Ogden Nash, to name but a few. Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there is something here for every mood, every child and the child in every adult.

Author: Selected and edited by Diana Secker Larson