Books with a Beat – Rhythmic Read-Alouds, titles suggested by PUBYAC; compiled by Vicky Dworkin, 10/09; And sing along books, compiled by Carling Shilling, 8/4/10.
see also: Lively Picture Books
A-hunting we will go! by Steven Kellogg.
All Aboard for Dreamland by Melani Harby
Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter
The Aunts Go Marching by Maurie Manning
The Babies on the Bus by Karen Katz
Baby Beluga by Raffi
Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont
Bear's Day Out by Michael Rosen
Bee-bim bop! by Linda Sue Park
Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming (2007)
Bedtime at the Swamp by Kristyn Crow
Bounce by Doreen Cronin
The Boy on the Bus by Penny Dale
Bradley McGogg, the very fine frog by Tim Beiser ; illustrated by Rachel Berman.
Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum by Lisa Wheeler
Boogie Knights by Lisa Wheeler
Boom Chicka Rock by John Archambault ; illustrated by Suzanne Tanner Chitwood.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
Bugtown Boogie by Warren Hanson
Cadillac by Charles Temple
Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Bogan Logan by Tedd Arnold
Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka
Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto
Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Chicka-Chicka 1 2 3 by Bill Martin
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy McClennan
Clickety Clack by Rob Spence
Cool Daddy Rat by Kristin Crow
Cows in the Kitchen
Crocodile Beat by Gail Jorgensen
Dancin' in the Kitchen by Wendy Gelsanliter (1998)
The Deep Blue Sea: a book of colors by Audrey Wood
Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland (1994)
Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton
Down by the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night by Wendy Watson
Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff
Giddy Up Let's Ride
Going to the Zoo by Tom Paxton
Green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Sophie Fatus
Here's Bojangles
Hey Mr. Choo-Choo, Where are you going by Susan Wickberg
How do You Wokka-Wokka? by Elizabeth Bluemle
Hush Little Dragon by Boni Ashburn
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont
I Got Two Dogs by John Lithgow
I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track by Joshua Prince
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
I'm Still Here in the Bathtub by Alan Katz
If You're happy and You Know It by Jane Cabrera
If You're Happy and You Know It: Jungle Edition by James Warhola
An island in the sun by Stella Blackstone
Any books by Jane Cabrera
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler
Jazzmatazz! by Stephanie Calmenson
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom
Jungle Beat by Jim Post
The Lady with the Alligator Purse Nadine Bernard Westcott
Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around by Claudia Rueda
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Llama Llama misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Mabel O'Leary put peas in her ear-y by Mary Delaney.
The maestro plays by Bill Martin, Jr
Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd***
Max Found Two Sticks by Pinkney
Miss Mary Mack by Mary Ann Hoberman
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Jane Cabrera
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman
Over in the Meadow by Jane Cabrera
Over the river: a turkey's tale by Derek Anderson.
Park Beat by Jonathan London
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Westcott
Pete the Cat Books
Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Please, Puppy, Please by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Plumply, dumply pumpkin by Mary Serfozo
Possum Come A-knockin' by Nancy Van Laan
Potato Joe by Keith Baker
Punk Farm by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Rap a Tap Tap- Here’s Bojangles, Think of That! by Leo Dillon
Rattlebone Rock by Sylvia Andrews
Roadwork by Sally Sutton
The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Carol Diggory Shields
The Scrubbly Bubbly Carwash by Irene O'Garden
17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy
Shake dem Halloween bones by w. Nikola-Lisa
Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Sitting on the Farm by Bob King
Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs by Alan Katz
Snake Alley Band by Elizabeth Nygaard
Soon Baboon Soon by Horowitz
Spider on the Floor by Raffi
The straight line wonder by Mem Fox
Stretch by Doreen Cronin
Tanka Tanka Skunk by Steve Webb
This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
Who ate all the cookie dough? by Karen Beaumont
There once was a man named Michael Finnegan by Mary Ann Hoberman
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
There Was an Old Monster by Rebecca, Ed, and Adrian Emberley
Think of That by Leo and Diane Dillon
This is the house that was tidy & neat by Teri Sloat
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
This Little Chick by John Lawrence
Tikki, tikki, tembo by Arlene Mosel
Today is Monday by Eric Carle
Trout, Trout, Trout! A fish chant by April Sayre
Two Sticks by Orel Protopopescu
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Who ate all the cookie dough? by Karen Beaumont
Who took the cookies from the cookie jar? by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges
Wiggle by Doreen Cronin
Window Music by Anastasia Suen
Zin, Zin a Violin by Lloyd Moss
(*** I wanted that song for a storytime I did a couple of seasons ago, but I wondered the same thing. So, since our department is on a separate level than Adult Services and people are always remarking about how it's so quiet upstairs and so--well--normal downstairs, I rewrote the song so it wasn't as rebellious in nature, thus:
They don't allow no hand-clapping upstairs (clap, clap) They don't allow no hand-clapping upstairs (clap, clap) That's OK, that's just fine, We can clap our hands in Storytime, They don't allow no hand-clapping upstairs (clap, clap)
And so on, with foot-stomping, song-singing (la, la, la), etc. --Nancy Whetstone, PUBYAC contributor 1-4-2011)