"Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, have hand-selected a wonderful mix of their most cherished poems, songs, and lullabies in this rich and diverse poetry collection."--Amazon.com.

CD contents: Introduction -- Loveliest of trees -- Rice pudding -- Pied beauty -- Faith -- Orange -- Runaway -- Something told the wild geese -- Cargoes -- Observation -- If once you have slept on an island -- Bartholomew Blue -- When mother reads aloud -- Trick -- At the theatre -- An attempt at unrhymed verse -- Turkey shot out of the oven -- To an oak tree -- Growing up -- High flight -- King's breakfast -- Toys talk of the world -- Outroduction. All things bright and beautiful: All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Spring / Julie Andrews -- These precious things / Howard Alexander and Billy Mayerl -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Spring rain / Marchette Chute -- Daffodils / William Wordsworth -- Wildflowers / Julie Andrews -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- Trees / Harry Behn -- Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman -- To an oak tree / E.C. Wells -- Child's song in Spring / Edith Nesbit -- Song of the beech tree fairy / Cicely Mary Barker -- Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Lazy afternoon / John LaTouche and Jerome Moross -- Wind / Ted Hughes -- September / John Updike -- Merry Autumn days / Charles Dickens -- Autumn / John Clare -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Lyman Field -- Smells / Kathryn Worth -- Every living thing / Julie Gold -- Accentuate the positive: Accentuate the positive / Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen -- Orange / Wendy Cope -- Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare -- My favorite things / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Cockeyed optimist / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Optimist / Anonymous -- Certainty / Emily Dickinson -- Be like the bird / Victor Hugo -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Faith / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll -- You must believe in Spring / Alan, Marilyn Bergman, and Michael Legrand -- Growing up: Growing up / Julie Andrews -- On my way / Emma Walton Hamilton, Lisa Michaelis, Billy Schlosser, Bitty Schlosser -- Lisa Michaelis -- Home! You're where it's warm inside / Jack Prelutsky -- Secrets of our garden / Rupert Sargent Holland -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rice pudding / A.A. Milne -- Our Lady of perpetual demand / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Observation / Julie Andrews -- I did not eat your ice cream / Jack Prelutsky -- Sick / Shel Silverstein -- More I cannot wish you / Frank Loesser -- Bedtime blessing: Bedtime blessing / Julie Andrews -- Night / William Blake -- Vespers / A.A. Milne -- Not while I'm around / Stephen Sondheim -- Good night prayer / Henry Johnstone -- My bed is a boat / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sweet dreams / Ogden Nash -- Wynken, blynken, and nod / Eugene Field -- Bed mate / Constance Andrea Keremes -- Genius / Nikki Grimes -- Trick / John Mole -- And I'll be there / Alan, Marilyn Bergman, and Dave Grusin -- Talk to the animals: Talk of the animals / Leslie Bricusse -- Feed the birds / Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman -- Wren / Liza Lehmann -- Duck's ditty / Kenneth Grahame -- Adelie Penguin / Tony Walton -- Cow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Runaway / Robert Frost -- Nicholas Nye / Walter de la Mare -- Pit pony's memory of the strike / Arthur Morris -- My dog / Emily Lewis -- My new rabbit / Elizabeth Gould -- I met a rat of culture / Jack Prelutsky -- Mountain and the squirrel / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Grasshopper and the elephant / Anonymous -- Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Sea-fever: Sea-fever / John Masefield -- I started early / Emily Dickinson -- Sea / James Reeves -- Noticing / Julie Andrews -- My ship / Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- I'd like to be a lighthouse / Rachel Lyman Field -- Mermaids / Walter de la Mare -- If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Lyman Field -- Boats sail on rivers / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- What are heavy? / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Little pebble's song / Sabine Sicaud -- Brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Laughing song: Laughing song / William Blake -- Have you ever seen? / Anonymous -- Teapot and the kettle / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Be glad your nose is on your face / Jack Prelutsky -- Giraffe poked his head in my window / Julie Andrews -- Bartholomew blue / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- Missing / Julie Andrews -- ABC / Spike Milligan -- Today I'm going yesterday / Jack Prelutsky -- King's breakfast / A.A. Milne -- My Auntie / Colin West -- Two limericks / Tony Walton -- Attempt at unrhymed verse / Wendy Cope -- Leisure: Leisure / W.H. Davies -- Sunday / Stephen Sondheim -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Wind pictures / Mary O'Neill -- Ice-cream man / Rachel Lyman Field -- At the library / Nikki Grimes -- Book / Emily Dickinson -- Oh, for a book / Christopher North -- Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- What's a poem? / Charles Ghigna -- Reading mother / Strickland Gillilan -- When mother reads aloud / Anonymous -- Picture books in winter / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Paint box / Emile Victor Rieu -- Singing time / Rose Fyleman -- I'm the leader of the band / Anonymous -- Floral dance / Katie Moss -- At the theater / Rachel Lyman Field -- Wonderful world: Wonderful world / William Brighty Rands -- Toys talk of the world / Katharine Pyle -- Nation's strength / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Colors / Shel Silverstein -- People / Charlotte Zolotow -- Skyscrapers / Rachel Lyman Field -- New York City / Julie Andrews -- City / Langston Hughes -- Breaks free / Frank Asch -- Landscape / Eve Merriam -- Prayer for Earth / Myra Cohn Livingston -- High flight / John Gillespie Magee Jr. -- Dreams / Cecil Frances Alexander -- Untitled / Chief Dan George -- My symphony / William Ellery Channing -- Nature Boy / Eden Ahbez / Gift / John Bucchino and Ian Fraser.