Julie Andrews' collection of poems, songs, and lullabies

CD contents: Introduction

Loveliest of trees

Rice pudding

Pied beauty

Faith

Orange

Runaway

Something told the wild geese

Cargoes

Observation

If once you have slept on an island

Bartholomew Blue

When mother reads aloud

Trick

At the theatre

An attempt at unrhymed verse

Turkey shot out of the oven

To an oak tree

Growing up

High flight

King's breakfast

Toys talk of the world

Outroduction.

All things bright and beautiful: All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander

Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spring / Julie Andrews

These precious things / Howard Alexander and Billy Mayerl

April rain song / Langston Hughes

Spring rain / Marchette Chute

Daffodils / William Wordsworth

Wildflowers / Julie Andrews

Trees / Joyce Kilmer

Trees / Harry Behn

Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman

To an oak tree / E.C. Wells

Child's song in Spring / Edith Nesbit

Song of the beech tree fairy / Cicely Mary Barker

Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Lazy afternoon / John LaTouche and Jerome Moross

Wind / Ted Hughes

September / John Updike

Merry Autumn days / Charles Dickens

Autumn / John Clare

Something told the wild geese / Rachel Lyman Field

Smells / Kathryn Worth

Every living thing / Julie Gold

Accentuate the positive: Accentuate the positive / Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

Orange / Wendy Cope

Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare

My favorite things / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Cockeyed optimist / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Optimist / Anonymous

Certainty / Emily Dickinson

Be like the bird / Victor Hugo

Dust of snow / Robert Frost

Faith / Emma Walton Hamilton

Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll

You must believe in Spring / Alan, Marilyn Bergman, and Michael Legrand

Growing up: Growing up / Julie Andrews

On my way / Emma Walton Hamilton, Lisa Michaelis, Billy Schlosser, Bitty Schlosser

Lisa Michaelis

Home! You're where it's warm inside / Jack Prelutsky

Secrets of our garden / Rupert Sargent Holland

My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson

Rice pudding / A.A. Milne

Our Lady of perpetual demand / Emma Walton Hamilton

Observation / Julie Andrews

I did not eat your ice cream / Jack Prelutsky

Sick / Shel Silverstein

More I cannot wish you / Frank Loesser

Bedtime blessing: Bedtime blessing / Julie Andrews

Night / William Blake

Vespers / A.A. Milne

Not while I'm around / Stephen Sondheim

Good night prayer / Henry Johnstone

My bed is a boat / Robert Louis Stevenson

Sweet dreams / Ogden Nash

Wynken, blynken, and nod / Eugene Field

Bed mate / Constance Andrea Keremes

Genius / Nikki Grimes

Trick / John Mole

And I'll be there / Alan, Marilyn Bergman, and Dave Grusin

Talk to the animals: Talk of the animals / Leslie Bricusse

Feed the birds / Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

Wren / Liza Lehmann

Duck's ditty / Kenneth Grahame

Adelie Penguin / Tony Walton

Cow / Robert Louis Stevenson

Runaway / Robert Frost

Nicholas Nye / Walter de la Mare

Pit pony's memory of the strike / Arthur Morris

My dog / Emily Lewis

My new rabbit / Elizabeth Gould

I met a rat of culture / Jack Prelutsky

Mountain and the squirrel / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grasshopper and the elephant / Anonymous

Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear

Sea-fever: Sea-fever / John Masefield

I started early / Emily Dickinson

Sea / James Reeves

Noticing / Julie Andrews

My ship / Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill

Cargoes / John Masefield

I'd like to be a lighthouse / Rachel Lyman Field

Mermaids / Walter de la Mare

If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Lyman Field

Boats sail on rivers / Christina Georgina Rossetti

What are heavy? / Christina Georgina Rossetti

Little pebble's song / Sabine Sicaud

Brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Laughing song: Laughing song / William Blake

Have you ever seen? / Anonymous

Teapot and the kettle / Mary Ann Hoberman

Be glad your nose is on your face / Jack Prelutsky

Giraffe poked his head in my window / Julie Andrews

Bartholomew blue / Emma Walton Hamilton

Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes

Missing / Julie Andrews

ABC / Spike Milligan

Today I'm going yesterday / Jack Prelutsky

King's breakfast / A.A. Milne

My Auntie / Colin West

Two limericks / Tony Walton

Attempt at unrhymed verse / Wendy Cope

Leisure: Leisure / W.H. Davies

Sunday / Stephen Sondheim

Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wind pictures / Mary O'Neill

Ice-cream man / Rachel Lyman Field

At the library / Nikki Grimes

Book / Emily Dickinson

Oh, for a book / Christopher North

Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

What's a poem? / Charles Ghigna

Reading mother / Strickland Gillilan

When mother reads aloud / Anonymous

Picture books in winter / Robert Louis Stevenson

Paint box / Emile Victor Rieu

Singing time / Rose Fyleman

I'm the leader of the band / Anonymous

Floral dance / Katie Moss

At the theater / Rachel Lyman Field

Wonderful world: Wonderful world / William Brighty Rands

Toys talk of the world / Katharine Pyle

Nation's strength / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colors / Shel Silverstein

People / Charlotte Zolotow

Skyscrapers / Rachel Lyman Field

New York City / Julie Andrews

City / Langston Hughes

Breaks free / Frank Asch

Landscape / Eve Merriam

Prayer for Earth / Myra Cohn Livingston

High flight / John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Dreams / Cecil Frances Alexander

Untitled / Chief Dan George

My symphony / William Ellery Channing

Nature Boy / Eden Ahbez / Gift / John Bucchino and Ian Fraser.