{"product_id":"a-singing-game-jeanne-pitre-soileau-9781496862020","title":"A Singing Game: A Personal History of When I Was a Baby","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Singing Game: A Personal History of \"When I Was a Baby\" \u003c\/i\u003eexamines a series of variants of the classic singing game. \"When I Was a Baby,\" like other traditional singing games, is based around a verse or rhyme paired with a set of movements. This singing game was made up by children and passed down by classmates, siblings, and friends to other children over a period of at least one hundred and fifty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jeanne Pitre Soileau traces \"When I Was a Baby\" through its many permutations, from its earliest appearance in folklore to variations uploaded to YouTube and introduces the varied folklorists who collected it through its history. As the years go by, the anonymous child poets who keep it alive, keen observers of change, spice it up with new vocabulary, new pantomimes, and incorporate into it more piquant social commentary. Part folklore study, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Singing Game \u003c\/i\u003ealso explores Soileau's journey of becoming, through trial and error, a specialist in south Louisiana child lore. Altogether, \u003ci\u003eA Singing Game \u003c\/i\u003eis an important addition to the children's folklore canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanne Pitre Soileau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496862023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496862020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jeanne Pitre Soileau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47761265164543,"sku":"9781496862020","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2fbf159c-4db3-4fcc-8750-dc1d8fd470c3.jpg?v=1765514737","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-singing-game-jeanne-pitre-soileau-9781496862020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}