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Revels founder John Langstaff was among America's most esteemed music educators, and an important pioneer in the field of children's music. Throughout his career, he found vibrant, fun-loving ways to return folk songs to the daily lives of children. The Kodaly Music Institute at the New England Conservatory awarded its first-ever Artist/Teacher/Scholar Award to Langstaff for his lifetime of teaching children and their adults the abiding joys of singing together.

"Whenever I'm asked to go to schools," Langstaff told the Boston Globe in 2000, "I always tell them, 'I'm not coming here to sing for you; I'm coming to make music with you.'"

   
frogwent_130.jg Frog Went A-Courtin'
Winner: Caldecott Medal

Ages 3-7. An entertaining and beautifully illustrated picture and song book of the well-know folksong.


PC-9005 (Paperback) $7.00 [add to order]  [view order]

   
overinmeadow_130.jpg Over in the Meadow
Winner: ALA Notable Book Selection

Ages 3-7. Beautifully drawn picture book about meadow life, with words and music. Encourages young children to sing and make up new verses.

PC-5001 (Paperback) $7.00 [add to order]  [view order]

   
SallyGoRound_new.jpg Sally Go Round the Moon
Designed for use by parents, teachers or children themselves, this lovely collection by John and Nancy Langstaff, with gorgeous silhouette drawings by Jan Pienkowski, [read more]


SB-1085 (Songbook) $16.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
Let'sSingVideo.jpg Let's Sing! and Let's Keep Singing!
Sing-along videos ideal for children watching alone or in groups. Excellent companion tapes to Programs 1-4, with sing-along versions of every song. Great teaching tools for classrooms, story hours or any other group setting (45 minutes each). A companion book of words, music and instruction is included.


Let's Sing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 3-7 - Program 5 $9.95 [add to order]  [view order]
Let's Keep Singing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 7-10 - Program 6 $9.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
Jackfishmini.jpg John Langstaff Sings The Jackfish
and More Songs for Singing Children

Originally recorded in the 1950s by EMI, these 35 charming, sprightly folk songs were picked by Langstaff for the ease with which children can sing them--and the fun they have doing it. [read more]
CD-2201 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
moon_azarian100.jpg When the Moon Is Full: A Lunar Year
Ages 4-8. Mary Azarian's hand-colored woodcuts provide evocative, haunting nature scenes for Penny Pollock's eloquent read-aloud poems in honor of each month's full moon. [read more]
HC-5500 (Hardcover) $15.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
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Making Music by Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff

Excellent drawings and text show you how to make more than 70 basic rhythm, string, wind and keyboard instruments using everyday ingredients like coat hangers, yardsticks, fishing line and milk jugs. John Langstaff describes fascinating ideas for how to compose and conduct pieces for these creatively constructed ensembles.
HC-4004 (Hardcover) $19.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
SongsforSingingChildren_ Songs for Singing Children
Langstaff has a genius for making old chestnuts sound fresh, young and bubbly with life. These 26 classic songs [read more]
CO-8586 (CD and Teaching Supplement Combination) $15.95 [add to order]  [view order]
CD-8586 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]  [view order]
TS-8586 (Teaching Supplement only) $3.00 [add to order]  [view order]

   
Whatamornpb.jpg What A Morning!
The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
Selected and Edited by John Langstaff
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Arrangements for singing and piano by John Andrew Ross

A unique and powerful collection. The story of Christmas is told through classic spirituals, augmented with [read more]

PC-4225 (Paperback) $5.00 [add to order]  [view order]

   
climbjacob_130.jpg Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Heroes of the Bible in African-American Spirituals

Nine great figures of the Old Testament - Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jonah - chosen by John Langstaff, are celebrated here in picures and in song. WOrds, picures and music are combined in an outstanding book to be used by families and groups of all faiths and tradtions. Illustrated by Ashely Bryan. Piano arrangesments by John Andrew Ross. Includes Didn't it Rain, Rock-a My Sould, Climbing Jacob's ladder and more.
HC-4200 (Hardcover) $13.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
saintgeorge_120.jpg Saint George and the Dragon
John Langstaff compiled this delightful version of the mummers' play St. George and the Dragon which he often produced and directed. Here is the script with music,instructions for performing the sword dance, stage directions and costume suggestions. "Please to let the mummers act!"
HC-1000 (Hardcover) $9.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
hotcrossbuns_120.jpg Hot Cross Buns
The first commercial jingles! A collection of old English street cries and their simple musical notes for children and families to use and enjoy. Collected by John Langstaff. Age 8 and up.
HC-103X (Hardcover) $7.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
raspberries_100.gif Jay O'Callahan: Raspberries
"Once upon a time there was a sad farmer. Everything went wrong in his life. Until one day..." [read more]
CD 0002 $14.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
Victory_scbk.jpg Susan Cooper: Victory
Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle... One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of [read more]
HC-2106 (Hardcover) $16.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
darkisrising100.jpg Susan Cooper: The Dark Is Rising
This widely acclaimed award-winning series by Susan Cooper is a superlative dramatic fantasy interweaving ancient Celtic and English traditions with the legends of the Buckinghamshire hills and valleys where she grew up. [read more]
PC-1557 (Paperback) $24.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
MagicianBoy_100.jpg Susan Cooper: The Magician's Boy
A Boy works for a Magician and finds himself transported into the Land of Story... [read more]
HC-5600 (Hardcover) $14.95 [add to order]  [view order]

   
greenboy100.jpg Susan Cooper: Green Boy
Bahamians Trey, age 12, and his mute brother Lou, 7, find themselves tugged between two parallel worlds: their own happy island life, threatened by big-business developers, and a murky, sinister otherworld called Pangaia, entered accidentally through a magical window between worlds... [read more]
PC-5000 (Papercover) $5.99 [add to order]  [view order]

   
sc_boggart1.gif Susan Cooper: The Boggart
When Emily and Jess Volnik's family inherits a remote, crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit the Boggart -- an invisible, mischievous spirit who's been playing tricks on residents of Castle Keep for generations. [read more]
PC-30893 (Paperback) $5.99 [add to order]  [view order]

   
SC_kingshad1.gif Susan Cooper: The King of Shadows
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London ... until he goes to bed ill and wakes up in England - in 1599... [read more]
PC-1901 (Paperback) $5.99 [add to order]  [view order]

 
 
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