A collection of action songs, dances, sound effect songs and songs to act out, all designed to develop literacy, social and communication skills. The songbook contains the music, words, piano accompaniments and play-along percussion ideas. The CD contains a recording of the accompaniments.

A collection of action songs, dances, sound effect songs and songs to act out. They are all designed to develop literacy, social and communication skills, and build young children's confidence. The songbook contains the music, words, piano accompaniments and play-along percussion ideas. The CD contains a recording of all the accompaniments to sing along with. No music reading is required.

This book is part of a book series called Songbooks .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Harriet Powell was one of the organisers behind Prof Dogg's Troupe, a community theatre group for children. She is now a qualified music therapist. David McKee is also the creator of both Mr Benn, which was voted 6th of the Top 100 Children's Programmes on TV, and King Rollo.

This book has the following chapters: Say hello; how do you do?; bash and bang band; we're going to make a circus; come to the party; make a face; when a dinosaur's feeling hungry; creep up; act in song; be a clown; walking through the jungle; crying song; rhyming name song; dice song; colour song; keep on dancing; bendy toy; make a cake; monster stomp; one two three; I've got a body; mistletoe; we can do anything; weather song; sound song; down on the farm; on Christmas day; say goodbye.