Dreams are made for children : classic jazz lullabies

Author

Misja Fitzgerald Michel

Call Number

• JE RHYMES & SONGS DREA (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Edition

Book w/CD

Publication Information

[Montreal] : Secret Mountain (Folie Avoine Productions), [2015]

Physical Description

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 audio disc (digital, sound ; 4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Storybook: A selection of timeless jazz dream songs that will lull babies into a sweet, blissful sleep. Lyrics and brief explanatory notes with whimsical, dream-like illustrations accompany each featured song.

CD: Twelve popular standards from the gold age of jazz recorded by singing legends Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and Chet Baker, amongst others.

Notes

Place of production from website.

First published in France by Didier Jeuness, Paris, 2012.

Contents

• Lullaby of Birdland (Sarah Vaughn)
• Lullaby in blue (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher)
• Dreams are made for children (Ella Fitzgerald)
• My sleepy head (go to sleep) (Nat King Cole)
• Over the rainbow (Judy Garland)
• Goodnight my love (Sarah Vaughan)
• My funny Valentine (Chet Baker)
• Hit the road to dreamland (Mel Tormé)
• Summertime (Peggy Lee)
• Looking for a boy (Chris Connor)
• God bless the child (Billie Holiday)
• Brahms' lullaby (Frank Sinatra).