Wee Sing Dinosaurs

Wee Sing Classics

by Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp

This pre-historic adventure features 50 original fact-filled dinosaur songs and poems.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Pamela Conn Beall was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Klamath Falls, Oregon, with two sisters and a brother. Music was a large part of her childhood, not only within the family, but as she studied voice, piano, and guitar, and sang in numerous select choirs. She graduated from Oregon State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in music with a minor in education. After college she became an elementary school music teacher in the Portland area, taught guitar at the community college, and sang with the Norman Leyden Singers and Portland Symphonic Choir. Pam lives with her husband, Ron, in Lake Oswego, Oregon. They have four adult children.

Reviews

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

***Due to the age of the book at publishing, some scientific facts may be outdated***

The Wee Sing brand was known during its peak to provide songbook compilations and cassettes to teach younger generations music and/or rhymes from the past as well as sometimes something newer like this book. As a result some of the songs during these bitter years are definitely not going to be received well or even considered politically correct.

Each book is a collection of poems and various brief songs, the latter which are put on musical scales for those who not only talented in singing but also in playing an instrument. And sometimes if a tune has been recycled that information has also been shared.

Given the scientific and informative nature of this book, additional trivia has been tucked into the negative spaces to provide readers with more information as they flip through it. Meanwhile the book itself divides the songs into three chapters with the first two being informative and the last one just for fun dino songs.

The book does include some black-and-white illustrations that range from detailed and realistic to somewhat cartoonish. Most have been provided with a name as the book reaches out to provide readers with a large array of various species to get to know.

All in all if you are looking to share with your younger ones healthy and mostly wholesome older songs from the past than I would highly recommend these time capsules even with all their now perceived faults.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Questions are fun.

[Franca · Rating 5 out of 5]

All three of my children have loved this..my oldest is 21 and we've had that all these years.