Natalie Merchant She is an American singer, instrumentalist and composer who in 1993 was part of a very elegant group called 10,000 Maniacs with whom she published an essential album called Unpplugged. This album, published by MTV, featured fantastic melodies, great compositions and the voice of Natalie Merchant leading the entire work. The other day I went to his website and found that he had written a book of poems for children (in English) accompanied by an album.
And is that Leave your sleep It is a work that can serve as an introduction to poetry for kids. It's fun, with beautiful and complete illustrations by Barbara McClintock and also sold with a CD with the songs of the poems sung by Natalie Merchant. The poems, with their corresponding songs, have stories about witches, fear, dancing bears and many more. And they are:
- The Land of Nod
- The Dancing Bear
- The Janitor's Boy
- Adventures of Isabel
- Bleezer's Ice-Cream
- Old Mother Hubbard & Her Dog Revisited
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Topsyturvey-World
- It Makes a Change
- The Peppery Man
- Calico Pie
- If No One Ever Marries Me
- Equestrienne
- The Sleepy Giant
- Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
- Maggie and milly and molly and may
- The King of China's Daughter
- Vain and Careless
- I Saw a Ship a-Sailing
Both for the images I have seen of the book on the Internet, as for the selected poems and especially for the songs of Natalie Merchant it seems that it is a book to buy and enjoy at home with the family. On Amazon it can be found by € 18.20.
I found a video of TED in which Natalie Merchant appears singing the songs. Here I leave to know a little more of the work and to share it with the kids at home:
On the page of Natalie Merchant You can find a lot of information about the work Leave your sleep: access to poems, songs and listen to fragments of them. You can also see the rest of his work with an elegant and practical design.
Leave your sleep
Today in Amazon for € 14.41
