Oral Language Titles - A

A cumulative rhyme relating how rain came to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
c1981 - VERSE CHOIR

Someone is in rabbit's house and won't let her in.
c1977 - VARIETY, HUMOROUS

West African tale which explains why mosquito, who is responsible for baby owl's death, buzzes in people's ears for forgiveness.
c1975 - HUMOROUS

Jake and his father where prospecting for gold.  When they find a nugget, was it luck or hard work.
c2007 - Verse choir

Describes in verse the life of the brown-skinned Momma, white-skinned Daddy and family.
c1973 - HUMOROUS, VERSE CHOIR

Poems about food and eating.
c1979 - HUMOROUS, DUO, VERSE CHOIR

Anthology of the 20th Century American poetry by Afro-American authors.
c1973 - VARIOUS

Cuthbert O. Devine tries to hide the fact he's a wolf.
c1977 - HUMOROUS

Man begins with a horse and ends up with a bag of rotten apples.
c1968 - HUMOROUS

An abundance of hair with an attitude!
c2009 - Humorous solo

Flannel shirt is handed down through the family.
c1983 - VARIETY

Poetry
c1978 - SERIOUS

Variety of short stories.
c1980 - VARIETY

Using a lemonade stand as an example, introduces basic economics.
c1977 - HUMOROUS, VERSE CHOIR

A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as “give him a hand” and “hold your tongue.”
c2001 - HUMOROUS

Little child thinks he is falling apart when his tooth falls out, and his toes peel.
c1997 - HUMOROUS

A mouse has to think fast to avoid becoming a cat’s lunch.
c2004 - Humorous solo

Fractured fairy tale.
c1993 - HUMOROUS

Poems
c1983 - VARIETY

Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler’s Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals whom, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived amidst horrible conditions. For older children.
c1999 - SERIOUS SOLO, SERIOUS DUO