Crocodile and Other Poems A Choral Speech Collection

Crocodile and Other Poems Music for Children series Supplement By Ruth Pollock Hamm Book 29 pages A choral speech collection of;poetry by respected children's authors for use within the junior school. The book contains some metric poetic examples and also lessons which follow the meter of spoken prose. Included in the suggestions are ideas for movement, instrumental accompaniments and proposals for related art, drama and listening activities. Contents:Foreword When Hannibal Crossed the Alps (Eleanor Farjeon) Old Woman on a Broom (Anonymous) Try, Try Again (Proverbs arr. by Hamm) John Cook (Anonymous) Giant Thunder (James Reeves) The Hag (Robert Merrick) It Is Raining (Lucy Sprague Mitchell) Quarrels? No! Just Friendships (Proverbs arr. by Hamm) The Icicle (Mrs. Henry Gordon Gale) The Wendigo (Ogden Nash) Silting, Linting and Klee (Ruth Pollock Hamm) Men Who March Away (Thomas Hardy) The Telephone (Edward Field) Windy Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson) Qwerty-u-i-op (Arthur Guiterman) Crocodile (Kernei Chukovsky, trans. Richard Coe)