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Girls Like Us Carly Biography	Potluck at Midnight Farm	Take Me Out To The Ball Game April 2011
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information. See Girls Like Us The Music.	Written by Tamara Weiss (Carly's partner in the island store - Midnight Farm), this book includes Carly's recipes for the perfect cup of tea and Winter Wellington (a bread and butter pudding).	Open the pages, put on the 3 song CD - Carly Simon's songs I Gave My Love A Cherry, Scarborough Fair and Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Age range 4-8.

Basket Full of Rhymes - 2000	Midnight Farm - 1997	Nighttime Chauffeur - 1993
The nursery rhymes in this collection are bound to twist the tongue and tickle the ears of children and parents alike. The whimsical wordplay of Mother Goose is performed by Carly Simon on the accompanying cassette.	Late one summer night, twin boys wake to the sound of all the animals and vegetables putting on their clothes on this Martha's Vineyard farm. The boys join in the midnight celebration, and they find themselves caught up in a very different kind of nocturnal adventure. Written by Carly Simon	The Nighttime Chauffeur is a story that Carly Simon made up to tell her own children as they were growing up, dreaming of wonderful things and becoming frustrated if they sometimes didn't work out. Written by Carly Simon

Amy The Dancing Bear - 1989	The Boy of The Bells - 1990	The Fisherman's Song - 1990
Amy The Dancing Bear is a story that Carly made up to tell her own children as they were growing up, resisting bedtime and making excuses for staying up well past the disappearance of the last evening shadow. Written by Carly Simon	The Boy of the Bells is a story about a young boy who befriends Santa Claus and as a way to display his love for his older sister. Carly actually thought up this story while laying on hot beach on Martha's Vineyard. Written by Carly Simon	Carly Simon and Margot Datz, whose magical words and pictures graced the pages of Amy The Dancing Bear and The Boy of the Bells, have teamed up once again for this book based on her song of the same name. Written by Carly Simon
Bells Bears & Fishermen - Spoken Word Recording by Carly Simon - 1994 Carly Simon reads from her three popular children's stories. The Boy of the Bells, Amy the Dancing Bear, and The Fisherman's Song. Three of Carly Simon's own tales : A contemporary fairytale, a Christmas story and a love song are artfully produced in this entertaining CD. Each story, read by the author with great feeling, expression and emotion, is complete with sound effects and original music. Simon presents these stories in such an engaging manner, it is almost as if she were singing each tale; in fact, she does sing the last one. Children of all ages who enjoy listening to fairy tales will enjoy this CD. Listen to all three stories below:
Listen to Amy The Dancing Bear	Listen to The Boy of The Bells	Listen to The Fisherman's Song

Jackie Onassis called one day to ask me to write my autobiography. I didn't say "no", but I didn't mean "yes". In fact I tried, because it was Jackie. She was so reassuring and fascinating. I wrote some 50 pages and then gave up in a flurry of regret about revelations. I could talk about my own life with all its vicissitudes, long and short comings, but not those of other people. Jackie understood and also knew that I'd had a rich storytelling past with my own now grown-up children, and so suggested substituting a children's book for an autobiography. In 'Amy The Dancing Bear' there were fragments of my life to be sure. My life as a bear. It was the first book I collaborated on with Jackie and Margot Datz, my illustrator and friend from Martha's Vineyard. Over the years there were to be three others: 'The Boy Of The Bells', 'The Fisherman's Song' and 'The Nighttime Chauffeur'. Jackie's role was as a thoughtful editor. Signed with Simon & Schuster for two books, the first of which was 'Midnight Farm', a children's book about a farm coming to life at midnight. In retrospect, this looks like a big theme of mine. Four out of five of the children's books I have written are about nocturnal adventures.. Carly Simon

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