For generations, the songs and rhymes of American folk culture have delighted little ones and connected adult and child. These treasures were once passed on from parent or grandparent to child, but are now in danger of being lost and forgotten with changes in technology and family structure. This series helps to develop a young child's imagination and musical sensibilities, as well as create an intimate quiet time between parent and child. Here is the text and musical notation of 80 lullabies that have withstood the test of time, inspiring wonder, joy, and laughter in infants and toddlers for well over a hundred years! This book features songs in English as well as in Japanese, Russian, Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, and several other languages, with English translations. Favourites such as "Brahms's Lullaby", "Hush", "My Baby Don't You Cry", "Swing Low", "Sweet Chariot", and "Twinkle,Twinkle, Little Star" are just a sampling of the numerous multilingual, multicultural soothing songs that lull children to sleep.