Family Play Festival Five Practices: SING

CLEL Bell Award books--winners and shortlisted titles

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Book cover for We belong to the drum.
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2024 Winner
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"Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he starts going to daycare, he doesn't feel like he belongs. Nikosis cries every time his mother leaves him in the unfamiliar environment until, one day, she and the teachers use drums to help Nikosis find connection and comfort. Inspired by her son's experience--and her family's love of powwow music and dance--Indigenous educator...
Book cover for Sugar pie lullaby.
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2024 Shortlist
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A child and caring adult share their musical love in this bedtime lullaby-along. Includes background information about Motown legends.
Book cover for Still this love goes on.
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2023 Winner
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"A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Julie Flett celebrates seasons, nature, and community. Based on Academy Award-winning Cree icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's song of the same name, Still This Love Goes On is a stunning celebration of Indigenous experience. Breathtaking illustrations from celebrated Cree-Métis artist Julie Flett combine with Sainte-Marie's vivid lyrics to craft a remarkable piece...
Book cover for Welcome to the cypher.
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2023 Shortlist
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"Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning "a simple phrase/into imagery that soars" to proclaiming, "this is a voice that represents me!" As Khodi...
Book cover for Hush, little trucker.
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2023 Shortlist
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"This truck-themed picture book offers a charming new spin on the classic lullaby "Hush, Litle Baby," following a mother and child as they imagine taking the wheel of various vehicles, from a bulldozer to a front-end loader to a giant crane."--
Book cover for The rice in the pot goes round and round.
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2022 Shortlist
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Presents a song set to the tune of "The wheels on the bus," where a multigenerational family enjoys a culturally rich meal.
Book cover for Here we go digging for dinosaur bones.
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2021 Winner
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"Young paleontologists are invited on a fossil dig, set to the tune of Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush. Hike the trail, scan the ground, and make a find--then discover how to build a dinosaur from its bones. Includes song motions and bite-size science sidebars. This is a fun and distinctive young dinosaur book."--
Book cover for Your name is a song.
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2021 Shortlist
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"Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with...
Book cover for Old MacDonald had a truck.
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2017 Shortlist
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An update of the classic folk song, Old MacDonald, featuring farm vehicles like excavator, dump truck, and bulldozer.
Book cover for Music class today!.
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2016 Shortlist
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A group of toddlers enjoys a lively music class including, at last, one very shy two-year-old boy.
Book cover for Mother Goose's pajama party.
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2016 Shortlist
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Mother Goose throws a pajama party for all her nursery rhyme friends.
Book cover for Hush, little bunny.
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2020 Shortlist
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"Hush Little Baby” is a lullaby that parents have sung to their children for generations. Now Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein reimagines the classic, with a papa rabbit offering messages of nurturing protection and comfort to his baby.
Book cover for Elvis Presley's Love me tender.
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2019 Shortlist
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"Elvis Presley's hit song 'Love Me Tender' is reimagined as an ode to families of all shapes and sizes"--