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Potluck
at Midnight Farm
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Carly
Simon's Anthology
Songbook
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Piglet's Big Movie Songbook
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Piano/Vocal/Guitar
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Basket
Full of Rhymes - 2000
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Midnight
Farm - 1997
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Nighttime Chauffeur - 1993
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 The
nursery rhymes in this collection are bound to twist the tongue and tickle
the ears of children and parents alike. The
whimsical wordplay of Mother Goose is performed by Carly Simon on the accompanying
cassette.  |
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one summer night, twin boys wake to the sound of all the animals and vegetables
putting on their clothes on this Martha's Vineyard farm. The boys join in
the midnight celebration, and they find themselves caught up in a very different
kind of nocturnal adventure. |
 The
Nighttime Chauffeur is a story that Carly Simon made up to tell her own
children as they were growing up, dreaming of wonderful things and becoming
frustrated if they sometimes didn't work out. Out of print. |
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Amy
The Dancing Bear - 1989
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The
Boy of The Bells - 1990
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The
Fisherman's Song - 1990
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 Amy
The Dancing Bear is a story that Carly made up to tell her own children
as they were growing up, resisting bedtime and making excuses for staying
up well past the disappearance of the last evening shadow. Out of print. |
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Boy of the Bells is a story about a young boy who befriends Santa Claus
and as a way to display his love for his older sister. Carly actually thought
up this story while laying on hot beach on Martha's Vineyard... Out of print. |
 Carly
Simon and Margot Datz, whose magical words and pictures graced the pages
of Amy The Dancing Bear and The Boy of the Bells, have teamed up once again
for this book based on her song of the same name. Out of print.
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Jackie Onassis called one day to ask me to write my autobiography. I didn't say "no", but I didn't mean "yes". In fact I tried, because it was Jackie. She was so reassuring and fascinating. I wrote some 50 pages and then gave up in a flurry of regret about revelations. I could talk about my own life with all its vicissitudes, long and short comings, but not those of other people. Jackie understood and also knew that I'd had a rich storytelling past with my own now grown-up children, and so suggested substituting a children's book for an autobiography. In 'Amy The Dancing Bear' there were fragments of my life to be sure. My life as a bear. It was the first book I collaborated on with Jackie and Margot Datz, my illustrator and friend from Martha's Vineyard. Over the years there were to be three others: 'The Boy Of The Bells', 'The Fisherman's Song' and 'The Nighttime Chauffeur'. Jackie's role was as a thoughtful editor. Signed with Simon & Schuster for two books, the first of which was 'Midnight Farm', a children's book about a farm coming to life at midnight. In retrospect, this looks like a big theme of mine. Four out of five of the children's books I have written are about nocturnal adventures.. Carly Simon |
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