Ethel Crowninshield
Ethel Crowninshield (1882[1] – ) was an American children's songwriter. Her 1938 Sing & Play songs were used to teach children to sing until the 1950s and 1960s. The song "The Big Crocodile" is still taught today.[2]
Works
[edit]- Mother Goose Songs for Little Ones 1909
- Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, 1910
- The Sing & Play Book first edition, 1938, The Boston Music Company / Clarendon Press Oxford[3]
- "Diddle Diddle Dumpling" 1927 [4]
- Stories that Sing, 1944[5]
- Individual songs
- "Hoo Hoo" or "Yoo Hoo"
- "The Big Crocodile"
References
[edit]- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. Library of Congress Copyright Office. 1949. p. 45. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ The Literacy Jigsaw Puzzle: Assembling the Critical Pieces Beverly Tyner - 2012 "(b) Near Grade Level Lesson Planner for Primary-Grade Small-Group Differentiated Instruction Group: B Fluency (Rereading) Text: Level: “The Big Crocodile: A Song” by Ethel Crowninshield "
- ^ Maurine Timmerman Let's teach music in the elementary school 1958 - Page 59 "Timothy's Tunes by Adeline McCall (11), and Stories That Sing by Ethel Crowninshield (7) are good books for young children. In these books numbers are used to denote pitch. The lines in line notation are no longer on the same level as they ..."
- ^ "Crowninshield, Ethel - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
- ^ Elementary English 1950 -- Volume 27 - Page 413 "By Ethel Crowninshield. Illustrated by Corinne Malvern. Simon and Schuster. Four short stories, three songs, and a poem that will delight younger children. While the stories smack of Little Annie Rooney and contain blatant moralistic ..."
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