Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Author(s): Jack Norworth

Picture Books

Batter up! Get out the peanuts and Cracker Jacks, and get ready for fun with America's 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 victory--all cheered on by Katie Casey, the baseball-loving cat. And what a game it is! Giraffe winds up at the pitcher's 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? He'd better, because Elephant's up next and that will cause a commotion! Open the pages, put on the CD--which contains "I Gave My Love a Cherry" and "Scarborough Fair," along with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"--and introduce young fans to baseball.


Product Information

Jack Norworth was an American songwriter, singer, and vaudeville performer. He is credited as being one of a collection of New York-based songwriters and lyricists that made up Tin Pan Alley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," for which Jack wrote the lyrics, was his longest-lasting hit. Carly Simon is an internationally renowned singer and songwriter who has won two Grammy(R) Awards, as well as a Hall of Fame Grammy, an Oscar(R), and a Golden Globe(R) Award for "Let the River Run" from the film Working Girl. In 1994, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She began her career singing with her sisters, but came to fame in the early 1970s with such hits as "That's the Way I Always Heard it Should Be" and "Anticipation." The blockbuster "You're So Vain" followed, selling more than a million copies and earning several Grammy nominations; it is number 72 on Billboard's definitive "Hot 100" songs, compiled over the lifetime of the chart. Several of her albums have gone platinum, and she also scored a hit with "Nobody Does It Better," the theme song to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. In addition, Simon has produced for numerous singers, written the score for several films, and recorded collections of American songbook standards.

General Fields

  • : 9781936140268
  • : Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
  • : Imagine Publishing, Inc
  • : 0.735
  • : 273mm X 300mm X 15mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jack Norworth
  • : Jack Norworth
  • : illustrations
  • : illustrations
  • : 26
  • : 26
  • : 782.42
  • : 782.42
  • : Amiko Hirao
  • : Amiko Hirao
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback