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Publisher: Hendrickson Pub (August 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598562592
ISBN-13: 978-1598565324
Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.5 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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While I think it's a good value, a few of the songs are traditionally slower songs have been changed to more upbeat ones. We'd like to use a couple for the invitation time, but were a little disappointed when we turned them on and fast music started! It seems like kids under the age of 10 or so enjoy this better than 11 or 12 year olds, who think they're too big for "kid" music.I gave it 4 stars because there is quite a variety, some of the songs were a lot of fun, and the tracks can be split so we can sing without the CD singers. I would recommend this for a younger group of children.
We went online looking for children's hymnals and didn't find much. This was by far the best option we found. I love that the melody line is printed and that children can learn "when the notes go up, your voice goes up. . ." because so much of our congregational singing is without printed music. I liked the colorful cover and the size. It fits easily with a child's Bible. The author printed a brief," The Reason We Sing" and "Affirmation" with each song, and these are useful. However, I'd still like to duplicate more public domain hymns for my class and replace this very good but incomplete resource. Of the 80 hymns and songs, only 30 are hymns. We liked it enough to buy copies for all our primary Sunday School students. If you want a good mix of hymns and choruses you would give this 5 stars.
We bought this book to have a resource for kid's songs to supplement our hymnal that we use at home, as we wanted our son to be exposed to the hymns and children's songs we grew up singing. On the plus side, there are many more hymns and familiar songs than not, and kudos to Stephen Elkins and John DeVries for leaving songs like "Jesus Loves the Little Children" in its original form rather than changing the chorus to be more PC, like the Baptist Hymnal has done. I'm also thrilled at any hymnal for kids, as I was dismayed recently to see 4th graders at our church stand silently while the rest of the congregation sang "Victory in Jesus" because they obviously had never heard the song. Our church has gone the way of many others, using only PowerPoint slides for the words of the songs (only about a third of which are hymns anyway) and I have a feeling the children's choir and worship time includes no hymns at all.On the negative side, of the 80 songs, 27 were written by the Mr. Elkins, and I guess I was expecting all the songs to be familiar hymns or children's songs, rather than original compositions. The original songs are also, like most modern songs, syncopated and somewhat harder to play and/or sing than older songs/hymns.Overall I'm pleased with this book - we just probably won't use much of the original content and stick to the hymns and older songs.
My daughter loved the second disc in this set. One day it stopped working and she was so upset. I search everywhere for it and only found it here at a reasonable price. I love it and my kids really enjoy all of the songs!
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