A great sing along nursery rhyme book (Amazing Baby Clap and Sing! (Audio CD))

Member Name: SamPerry

Product:	Amazing Baby Clap and Sing! (Audio CD)
Date:	21/09/08 (272 review reads)
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Advantages: Rhymes we all know and love

Disadvantages: The music on the CD is a bit strange!

I bought the clap and sing along board book from the book People, this is a company that comes into our work once a fortnight with a variety of different books that are always a lot cheaper than in the shops. I bought this book for £4, the price printed on the back of the book is £9.99, so I made a £5.99 saving!!

It is a board book of songs that you can sing along to with your little one, there is also a CD with the songs on so that your child doesn't have to listen to your singing, if your singing is as bad as mine that is!!

The book is green and yellow on the front and has a picture of a cats head and a cow, the cow appears to be jumping over the CD that you can see through the front of the book. When you open the book the CD is in the back of the front cover, it is cleverly concealed behind a cardboard flap that you have to lift up. This is a clever idea as if the child doesn't know the CD is in there and you don't show them then it is well hidden from sticky little hands!!

There are then five thick board pages, which are very sturdy so cant be torn or easily chewed by your little one! They all have a lift up tab on the right hand side with a picture of an animal on so the pages are easy to turn. There is one or two nursery rhymes on each page, there are sixteen rhymes in total and are as follows:

Hey diddle diddle
Round and round the garden
Row, row, row your boat
One, two, three, four, five
Baa Baa black sheep
I had a little nut tree
Mary had a little lamb
The grand old duke of York
Little miss Muffet
Incy wincy spider
Sing a song of sixpence
Bobby Shafto
Pat a cake
Old McDonald had a farm.

I love this book as I know all the nursery rhymes and I think that anyone else around my age (31) will also know them, I seem to remember singing a lot of them at school when I was small. The book is also filled with lovely, bright colours which certainly catch a child's attention. Whilst Rhys is too small to really appreciate books yet, my 1.5 year old god daughter loved this book. She loved me to sing the songs to her while she sang the songs she knew and we also did little dances to some of them, like the Grand old duke of York!

The CD is very good, it sings all the nursery rhymes as they are in the book, now im not sure that I would actually sing them like this as im not a professional singer and would probably sound rather stupid attempting to!! They do tend to repeat the nursery rhyme about four times which can become slightly repetitive!! I must also say that they have tried to 'jazz' up some of the nursery rhymes with a funky back beat, I felt that this was quite unnecessary as they are changing the whole nursery rhyme!! So I will play this CD separately to singing from the book to Rhys as it makes for good listening. My son and I are actually listening to the CD as I type because he was becoming rather grumpy and I have to say that as soon as it started he stopped crying and started smiling, so it is obviously something that children even as young as Rhys at 4 months love!

Summary: My son loves this!