Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms - by Gloria T Delamar (Paperback)

About the Book

For anyone who works with children. Hundreds of old favorites.

Book Synopsis

Do you have a childhood memory of playing with other children and jumping rope or counting to those age-old funny rhymes?

This impressive compilation includes all the old traditional favorites (and some new) and is useful to anyone who works with children--parents, teachers, librarians, group leaders, camp counselors, day-care people, anyone.

Infants' finger and toe-counting games, choose-up-sides and you-are-it rhymes, ball-bouncing chants, tongue twisters, staircase tales, narrative act-out singsong tales and others--children have been enthralled by these rhymes and rhythms for ages. Also included are author, title, first line, and subject indexes.

Review Quotes

"a helpful resource...worthwhile"-Booklist; "a fine collection"-Come-All-Ye; "wonderful"-Small Press Review.

About the Author

The late Gloria T. Delamar was past president of the Philadelphia Writers' Conference. The author of several books, she was also very active in several organizations. She lived in Pennsylvania.