Nursery Rhymes: With a Sing-Along Music CD

My daughter loves this book... nice and solid with classic Rhymes.

Libro veramente bello e coinvolgente Lo consiglio. Il CD è in ottime condizioni. La musica semplice e adatta bambini piccoli. Soddisfatta

10ヶ月の息子に買いました。英語に親しみを持てたらなぁと。 本が大きくて凸凹してるので、触って楽しんでます。ただ、CDが入っているところが簡易的な感じなのであっという間に破ってしまいました。曲が短くて字も大きく絵も可愛いいので使いやすい。買って良かったです。

A friend of mine had this book and her 18 months daughter was in love with the songs on the CD. I recently bought it and my 5 month old daughter seems to love the pictures (quite nicely done ) in the book. I personally love the songs and the voice on the CD. It's british accent and I grew up in India, with an accent somewhat more familiar than the U.S one, hence to my ears, the voice and the accent is very very pleasant. But even if someone was singing in a chinese accent, I would not mind if it sounded pleasant to the baby. I am surprised there are so many people here who are criticizing the accent (someone went to the extent of saying its worse than nails on a chalk board and I totally disagree with it). My personal opinion (not wishing to impose on others) is that children should be exposed to all languages and accents. Amongst other developments that they would gain from it, it would also make them tolerant as they grow up. I do agree that some of the words in the rhymes are not pleasant like "woman living in a shoe whipping up children". but a lot of old-time songs had strange lyrics and we still loved those rhymes because as kids, we don't fully understand the meaning. I certainly do not know anyone who became a negative person by reading old time rhymes. But then again, thats a parent's personal choice. I do substitute words while singing. For eg: In Baba Black Sheep, - last line,- i usually say" one for my little ......(name of the baby)" My baby loves it and I enjoyed the cd so much that i just bought a second one for a neighbor whose baby is as old as mine.

The kind of book babies will enjoy flipping through without actually being able to tear. It's pretty big and tough - seems like a book which will last for years. The nursery rhymes are extremely western with 0 context...but I guess that was kind of to be expected

Recommend - we have this ourselves and have bought it as present for others. Recommend even though singer is perhaps not the absolute best (though better quality than many on nursery rhyme CDs we've found) and voice can grate after a while, and only single verses sung (though with repetition) for each rhyme. The book is lovely: bright but not garish, robust, baby loves it, goes for it. We like CD because accent is British, nearest to old school British nursery rhyme singing that we've found, choice of rhymes includes some of the slightly 'darker' (!) ones but we've embraced that and love it. Recommend and would buy again.