Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Get out the peanuts and Cracker Jacks, and get ready for fun with Americas national sport! The unofficial anthem of baseball has never sounded or looked better than it does in this joyful edition, complete with a CD featuring the inimitable Carly Simon. Colorful, collage-like illustrations are kids tickets into Sluggers Stadium, where two animal teams step up to the plate and vie for victoryall cheered on by Katie Casey, the baseball-loving cat. And what a game it is! Giraffe winds up at the pitchers mound, hoping for a strikeout. But, with a thwack, ball meets bat and Crocodile is off and running. Can Tiger tag him out at first? Hed better, because Elephants up next and that will cause a commotion! Open the pages, put on the CDwhich contains I Gave My Love a Cherry and Scarborough Fair, along with Take Me Out to the Ball Gameand introduce young fans to baseball.

Jack Norworth was an American songwriter, singer, and vaudeville performer. He was one of the New York-based songwriters and lyricists of Tin Pan Alley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Carly Simon is an internationally renowned singer and songwriter who has won two Grammy® Awards, as well as a Hall of Fame Grammy, an Oscar®, and a Golden Globe®. In 1994, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Amiko Hirao's books include Tulip at the Bat, How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie, and All Aboard. She lives in Massachusetts.