What if a child could read a story, sing it, and carry its lesson for life?

Sing Me a Fable is an A-to-Z storybook of 26 rhyming fables — one for every letter of the alphabet — and every single one comes with its own original song and sing-along karaoke.

From the Angry Boar to the My-Way Zebra, each fable follows one animal through one very human failing: anger, envy, greed, boasting, giving up before the carrots have grown. Four short verses, then a gentle moral small enough for a five-year-old to carry away. Nothing frightening, nothing preachy — just a little story that ends somewhere warmer than it began.Then comes the part children ask for again and again.

The same story comes back as a song, with sing-along karaoke so they can take the words over themselves. Read it, sing it, live it.

And all the while, without a single moment that feels like a lesson, children are picking up the words for the feelings themselves — envy, vanity, impatience, gratitude. Twenty-six big words, learned the easy way: in rhyme, in song, and fastened to an animal they will not forget.

REVIEWERS: hear the songs and try the free companion site https://singmeafable.com

All 26 songs and their karaoke stream free, no sign-up. In the printed book they open from a QR code on each fable's title page; from this digital ARC, go straight to the site. The songs are half the book — please listen to two or three before you review.

The site is free and runs in a browser, nothing to install:

* Ten learning games built from the book's own text — find-the-letter,   match-the-flaw, finish-the-moral, word search and more, laid out in   the order a child grows into them

* An arcade of playable fables, where each animal's fault is the thing   that makes the game hard

* Colour and Draw — the illustrations as colouring pages, on screen   or printable

* A Kindergarten Play page for teachers: activities for a supervised   room, each with group size, what you need, what it teaches and what   to do if it stalls

INSIDE THIS BOOK

* 26 rhyming fables, A to Z, each with its own gentle moral

* 26 original songs, one for every fable

* Sing-along karaoke for all 26

* A new word for a feeling on every letter, from aggression to zealotry

* Rhyme, rhythm and repetition — the quiet groundwork of early reading

* 26 different animals, no repeats — boar, swan, sheep, fox, frog, and   twenty-one more

* Warm watercolour illustrations on every page

* Atkinson Hyperlegible type, designed by the Braille Institute for   low-vision readers

FOR CLASSROOMS AND LIBRARIES

Ages 3 to 10. 8.5 x 8.5 inch square format. One fable per letter makes it workable as a daily read-aloud across a school year, and the songs give a music or circle-time extension at no extra cost.

Written for ages 3 to 10 — young enough to be read aloud, old enough to be read alone, and just right for a child who would rather sing than sit still.

The read-sing-learn storybook for every home, kindergarten and classroom.