This week my 4-year old son and I read about music and we read picture books where the words are lyrics to well known songs.
Ah, Music!
by Aliki
Whistle For Willie
by Ezra Jack Keats
Recommended Age: 3
Also: New York Public Library’s List of 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Also: TIME: The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
Lentil
by Robert McCloskey
Recommended Age: 4
Also: Five in a Row Book List for Ages 4-8
Also: Sonlight Preschool Book List for Ages 3-4 (in Make Way for McCloskey: A Robert McCloskey Treasury)
Song and Dance Man
by Karen Ackerman, Illustrated by Stephen Gammell
Recommended Age: 3
Also: Caldecott Medal Winners
Tuba Lessons
by T. C. Bartlett
Over in the Meadow
by John Langstaff
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
by Jane Cabrera
Cumbayah
by Floyd Cooper
Hush, Little Baby
by Brian Pinkney
All Things Bright and Beautiful
by Cecil F. Alexander, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Also: Memoria Press Kindergarten Read-Aloud Program