Songbooks - Alligator Raggedy-mouth: Making music with poems and rhymes Maureen Hanke
A collection of poems and rhymes offering an introduction to music-making in the classroom. There are suggestions on how to use the poems to encourage children to explore sounds, improvize on basic classroom instruments, develop musical ideas and even to compose whole pieces.
Alligator Raggedy Mouth is a descriptive book of poems and colourful rhymes with creative composition activities. It includes: Cats by Eleanor Farjeon, The Song Train Sang by Neil Adams, The Leader by Roger McGough, I'm a Hippy Hoppy Kid by Kirtiss Horswell, Don't call Alligator Long-mouth till you Cross River by John Agard, and many more.