B-I-N-G-O!

Sing and Read Storybook

by Hans Wilhelm

Presents an illustrated version of the children's song about the farmer and his dog, with musical notation and a CD recording.

Genres: Picture Books, Folklore, Music, Animals, Childrens, Nursery Rhymes, Dogs

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

Reviews

[Erin VanDemark · Rating 5 out of 5]

1. Goodreads Choice Award

2. K

3. A farmer has a dog named Bingo. The nursery rhyme spells out B-I-N-G-O as it is sung. Oftentimes this nursery rhyme is recited in such a way that the letters are revealed letter by letter with claps replacing the missing letters eventually leading to the eventual completion of the name, Bingo.

4. I'm pretty sure this nursery rhyme will continue to be so familiar with children for many more years to come. It's so simple, easy to recite, and so fun for children. It's a great nursery rhyme for beginner spellers that lets them break down a simple word letter by letter.

5. I think teaching B-I-N-G-O would be a great way to introduce concepts of ASL into early education classrooms. Teachers have been teaching aspects of ASL for things such as when children have to indicate that they need to use the bathroom without interrupting the lesson. It is a simple sign in which the students make a "t" with their hand in ASL and wave it side to side. With B-I-N-G-O only being five letters and those five letters being repeated often, I believe the children would be able to retain how to sign each letter. This may encourage them to learn how to sign more letters in ASL as they simultaneously practice the alphabet. You never know which children may need to use ASL in their daily lives so incorporating it into simple lessons would be incredibly beneficial.
An activity to go along with this would be playing the game of B-I-N-G-O on a board with each letters placed randomly on each B-I-N-G-O square. The teacher would sign a letter and the students would mark it on the squares that correspond until someone gets five in a row.

[Ollie Skyba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute illustrations, but to me this book would work much better as a board book. For children older than 4, it’s unlikely to hold attention for long - flipping pages while singing the already quite repetitive B-I-N-G-O song can get tiring quickly.

This feels like the kind of book that doesn’t stay in a home library for very long. It’s more suitable for library story time, where singing the same song once a week for toddlers makes perfect sense.

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[Katie Green · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not much value to it but a kindergarten or first grade student might like to look at it.

[Kayla Owsley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun to read and look at for younger children. Not much quality to it though.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a cute book

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Terrific illustrations for this older song. The music and lyrics are included at the end.

[Vivian · Rating 3 out of 5]

We sang this song but used the name of Bubba's truck, Earl, instead of the dog's name. To make it work we had to add an additional "l" to Earl, making it Earll. (Or it could be spelt E A R R L). Changing the song up this way makes it more entertaining to the parents attending and creates variety for the performers.

There was a farmer (or you could substitute the word "rancher") had a truck and Earll was its name-oh.
E - A - R - L - L
E - A - R - L - L
E - A - R - L - L
And Earll was its name-oh.

[Kat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing more than the song made into a book.

[Helaikhosti]

There was a farm had a dog