Ethel Crowninshield

Ethel Crowninshield (1882 – ) was an American children's songwriter. Her 1938 Sing & Play songs were used to teach children to sing until the 1950s and 1960s. The song "The Big Crocodile" is still taught today.

Works

 * Mother Goose Songs for Little Ones 1909
 * Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, 1910
 * The Sing & Play Book first edition, 1938, The Boston Music Company / Clarendon Press Oxford
 * "Diddle Diddle Dumpling" 1927
 * Stories that Sing, 1944
 * Individual songs:
 * "Hoo Hoo" or "Yoo Hoo"
 * "The Big Crocodile"