Family Play Festival Five Practices: SING

CLEL Bell Award books--winners and shortlisted titles

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Book cover for If Mama sings.
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2024 Shortlist
Description:
Celebrates the comfort and confidence a mother's voice brings to her child.
Book cover for Music is in everything.
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2024 Shortlist
Description:
A picture book based on Ziggy Marley's popular song celebrating music's many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen, from a loved one's laughter to the "river's latest tune," Marley reminds children everywhere that you don't need an instrument to create a beautiful song. Music is in Everything is a sweet and uplifting ode to the power and beauty of song.
Book cover for Sugar pie lullaby.
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2024 Shortlist
Description:
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
Description:
"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 Build a house.
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2023 Shortlist
Description:
Build a House tells the moving story of a people who would not be moved and the music that sustained them. Steeped in sorrow and joy, resilience and resolve, turmoil and transcendence, this dramatic debut offers a proud view of history and a vital message for readers of all ages: honor your heritage, express your truth, and let your voice soar, even--or perhaps especially--when your heart is heaviest.
Book cover for The rice in the pot goes round and round.
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2022 Shortlist
Description:
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
Description:
"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 Sing.
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2014 Shortlist
Description:
An illustrated presentation of the classic Sesame Street song about self-expression and the celebration of music.
Book cover for We've got the whole world in our hands =.
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CANTAR -- 2019 Lista Corta / SING -- 2019 Shortlist
Description:
"Join in a multicultural celebration of unity and diverse friendships all around the world as we read and sing along with joy, love, and peace! From the rivers to the mountains to the oceans and to the seas - we've got the whole wide world in our hands." -- from dust jacket. "¡Acompañanos a celebrar la unión y la amistad multicultural por todo el mundo mieintras leemos y contamos con alegría, amor y paz! De los ríos a las montañas, de los...
Book cover for Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
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2015 Shortlist
Description:
An illustrated version of the popular children's song.
Book cover for Twinkle, twinkle ABC.
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2018 Shortlist
Description:
A mash up of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and the "Alphabet Song," introduces readers to the alphabet in a whimsical manner designed to entertain them until it is time to sleep.
Book cover for Singing in the rain.
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2018 Shortlist
Description:
A picture book adaptation of the song Singing in the rain, which celebrates the glory of clouds and rain.
Book cover for Old MacDonald had a truck.
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2017 Shortlist
Description:
An update of the classic folk song, Old MacDonald, featuring farm vehicles like excavator, dump truck, and bulldozer.
Book cover for Elvis Presley's Love me tender.
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2019 Shortlist
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Description:
"Elvis Presley's hit song 'Love Me Tender' is reimagined as an ode to families of all shapes and sizes"--