Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhood

Rooted in an African American childhood, this book brings together a songbook, a storybook, a poetry collection, hand-clapping activities, and circle games. It includes “Eenie, Meenie, Sassafreeny” for hand claps and “Little Sally Walker” for a circle game. Families can sing “Amazing Grace” and “Oh, Freedom,” or read poems aloud. Its poetry includes work by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.