Once Upon a Rhyme | |
Published by | LeapFrog |
Learning Content | Nursery Rhymes |
Type | My First LeapPad |
Once Upon a Rhyme is a My First LeapPad book. It is in the Music and Reading sections of the My First LeapPad library. In this book, Leap, Lily, Tad and Edison act out 20 traditional children's nursery rhymes.
Summary[]
Leap, Lily and Tad act out 20 popular rhymes -- from Little Bo Peep to Wee Willie Winkie. Young readers will be delighted to join this lovable cast of characters as they "Pat-a-Cake", "Sing a Song of Sixpence," follow an "Itsy Bitsy Spider", and learn beginning reading skills!
Characters[]
Main[]
Minor[]
- King
- Queen
- Baker
- Sheep
- Lamb
- Old King Cole
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- The Mice
- The Village Animals
- The Cat
- The Cow
- The Dog
- The Dish and Spoon
Singing Voices[]
- Grant Rosenmeyer (Gerald Canonico in a few songs) sings for Leap.
- Tosha Schmidt sings for Lily.
Poem Reciters[]
Candi Milo, Marie Danielle and Nicki Rapp recite a few songs that are treated as poems (as well as speaking some dialogue).
Songs and Poems[]
There are 20 rhymes in total. 10 of these are sung as songs and the other 10 are spoken as poems.
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (vocal: Grant Rosenmeyer [most of the song; Gerald Canonico sings the third and fourth line])
- Little Jack Horner (speaker: Nicki Rapp)
- Mary Had a Little Lamb (vocal: Tosha Schmidt)
- Wee Willie Winkie (speaker: Candi Milo)
- 1-2, Buckle my Shoe (chant: Marie Danielle/Nicki Rapp)
- Pat-a-Cake (speaker: Nicki Rapp)
- Old King Cole (vocal: Patrick Stogner)
- Little Bo-Peep (speaker: Marie Danielle)
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider (vocal: Patrick Stogner)
- Roses are Red (speaker: Nicki Rapp [with Christiane Crawford reciting the last line])
- Little Boy Blue (offscreen vocal: Charles Martinet)
- Little Miss Muffet (speaker: Marie Danielle)
- Rain, Rain, Go Away (vocal: Patrick Stogner/Tosha Schmidt)
- Jack & Jill (speaker: Candi Milo/Marie Danielle)
- Sing a Song of Sixpence (vocal: Grant Rosenmeyer)
- Jack Be Nimble (speaker: Candi Milo)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (vocal: Patrick Stogner)
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (speaker: Marie Danielle)
- Hey Diddle Diddle (vocal: Patrick Stogner)
- Star Light, Star Bright (speaker: Marie Danielle)
Game[]
A lily pad icon is at the bottom of the page to play a game.
Sing and Read Along[]
If you touch the speech bubble, the rhyme is sung aloud or spoken to the reader, by either Leap, Lily, Tad, or offscreen voices.
Credits[]
Trivia[]
- This is the only book to have Grant Rosenmeyer (or Gerald Canonico) sing for Leap, and the final book to have Tosha Schmidt sing for Lily, while Nicole Rapp speaks and Danny Walker sings for Tad as usual.
- This is the first ever LeapFrog book to have voice actress Marie Danielle (aka Sandy Fox) voice Lily; the other first book that Marie Danielle did was the LeapPad Phonics Program book, Cake and Mice Cream.
- The male singer (Charles Martinet) for the song "Little Boy Blue" is from the LeapPad book, Mother Goose Songbook.
- The book's title is a pun on the storybook phrase "Once upon a time".
- All the songs are arranged by Jeanne Parson, Paul Newell and Mary Ekler (excepting those that are spoken poems, using original background music composed by Jeanne Parson, Paul Newell and Mary Ekler).
- This book is the only time Doug Boyd voices Edison.
- The working title for this My First LeapPad book is Rhyme Time. [1]