Mary McKenna Siddals

NEW! Jump for Joy! Start your morning with yoga!

Greet the day with this Good Morning, Morning song

Help Ernie Wake Up all of Bert with this song 

Stretch out with some Hands and Feet Yoga

Get organized with these Morning Routine Cards

Act out your morning routine with this Wake Up song

Start your day with the Getting Ready for School song

Sing along with Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Make your very own morning routine book

Be ready to get dressed with these tags for your clothes

Decorate your pillowcase to welcome the day

Enjoy the Five Little Babies story and activities

Have fun playing these 6 classic baby games

What time is it?  Show the time on these colorful clocks

Play an online game of Peek-a-boo on Sesame Street

Play some online games of Peek-a-Boo and Surprise!

Join Big Bird in singing Good Morning Mister Sun

Go out into the sunshine for some Shadow Play

Guess what the shadows are on these Silhouette Cards

Answer the doorbell to find out Who's at the Door?

Make music in the nursery with Elmo's Musical Rooms

Explore music with The Silly Song Machine & other games

Rise and Shine with more Picture Books to Greet the Day

A winning evocation of a boy's awakening.
—Publishers Weekly

Exudes a wonderful sense of anticipation
even as it celebrates the moment….
of course it’s going to be a great day!
—Cooperative Children's Book Center - Choices

A great way to start a child's day,
as well as your own.
—Judy Chernak in Children's Literature

The joy of waking to a new day
is captured by a small boy's ode
as he greets each familiar object
in his room with delight….
—Sally R. Dow for School Library Journal

Simple, cheery celebration of a new day.
—Horn Book

A cozy, luminous ode to the newborn day,
perfect for our little ones.
—Chinaberry Books

The kind of book a parent
wouldn't mind reading again and again,
"Morning Song" makes my top ten!
—Lynne Remick in Midwest Review

Siddals and Sayles have once again created
 a wonderful book for young children.
(highly recommended)
—Heidi Thornton in Sparks

An excellent book to share
with toddlers and preschool children.
Beginning readers will enjoy the repetition,
rhyming, and limited vocabulary.
—The Shy Librarian

Get the wee ones back in the September swing
with “Morning Song”….
—Marylou Morano in Book Nook

Siddals turns early morning into a celebration
with her cheerful text, and Sayles' illustrations…
perfectly capture the boy's increasing joy
as the sun rises.
—Julia Durango in By the Book

A counterpoint to the myriad of books
about bedtime… to show a cranky preschooler
there's another way to wake up.
—Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy in The Plain Dealer

A charming book for young children….
I recommend Morning Song to any family
with young children as a joyful
“good morning sun” song!
—Emily Bonner in Provident Bookfinder

If it is true "The first hour of waking
is the rudder that guides the whole day,"
then we should all wake up with this Morning Song.
—Dale R. Sampson in Northeast Massachusetts
Regional Library System

What a wonderful way to wake up!...
Morning Song is bright, colourful and fun.
—British Columbia Education Report