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This book is not another child's "garden" of verse. Sally Go Round the Sun is a new kind of song and games book, a generous collection of sandlot, street-corner, playroom poetry that will delight youngsters and tickle an adult's nostalgia. It presents, for the first time, three hundred singing games, skipping and ball-bouncing rhymes, taunts, teases and silly songs.
The book is ideal for children's parties there are simple directions for playing the games; tunes and guitar chords are provided for seventy-nine items; full plano accompaniments are given for twenty-five songs. Many of the verses can be sung to the familiar tunes indicated with each title. With pages fetchingly illustrated in bright colors, and all the verses in easy-to-read type, the book can keep a child occupied for hours.
A glance at the full index of first lines ("Georgie, Porgie, pudding and pie," "Polly put the kettle on," "While shepherds washed their socks by night") is a quick flight to childhood fantasy; and the inclusion of harmless crudities and saucy gibes common to every child's repertoire make the book an interesting reference for any child psychologist, amateur or professional.
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