Popular songs written or performed as a response to disasters, display characteristics and have functions that vary in accordance with the type of disaster and have evolved to meet changes in how the news is distributed and how tragedy is dealt with on a societal level, as well as changing aesthetics as to how such events are appropriately handled in the arts. Parlor songs and broadside ballads of the 19 th century reflect the ideal of the sublime...

A young girl is chased up a tree by a bear and stuck there until she is finds help from an unusual source.

A collection of songs and information about native Americans designed to help children better appreciate them.

Colorful illustrations of various farm animals accompanies the words to a familiar nursery rhyme and song, also known as "Bought me a cat." On board pages.

Collects the author's folk songs, including "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," "Heel, Toe, and Away We Go," and "Sailing Over the Sea."