Literacy Fact

Chapter Three - Songs Inspired By Literature - Winning Songs

Below are the 12 songs inspired by literature chosen as winners from our 3rd annual songwriting contest. They will be featured on-line here until we have the resources to press our 3rd SIBL CD.

Please take the time to listen to the songs - lesson plans will be added here soon to help teachers use these songs in the classroom.

When you click to each book's page you can hear the songs by one simple click. To download the songs: PC users Right click on "Listen Now"; Mac users Option click on "Listen Now".

Congratulations to the Winners!
We are so grateful for your talent and generosity.

Song Title: Choose Your Own Perfume
* Grand Prize Winner *

Songwriter: Chris Hawkins
Carine, Australia

Source of Inspiration: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury

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Song Title: Time Splintered

Songwriter: Baruch Israel
Bronx, New York

Source of Inspiration: Kindred
Author: Octavia Butler

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Song Title: Proud Of Me

Songwriter: Angie Heimann
Fort Bragg, California

Source Of Inspiration: Woman Warrior
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

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Song Title: The Things We Carried

Songwriter: Ron DeChristoforo &
Anthony DiFebbo
Philadelphia, PA

Source Of Inspiration: The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O’Brien

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Song Title:
What’s to become of the Mockingbird

Songwriter: Angie Heimann
Fort Bragg, California

Source of Inspiration: To Kill A Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee

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Song Title: Chemistry

Songwriter: Edie Carey, Evan Brubaker
New York, New York

Source of Inspiration: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley

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Song title: Just Like Don Quixote

Songwriter: Tony Roberts
Summerville, Massachusetts

Source of Inspiration: Don Quixote
Author: Cervantes

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Song Title: One Day

Songwriter: Graham Greer
Ontario, Canada

Source Of Inspiration:
Oh Captain! My Captain!

Poet: Walt Whitman

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Song Title: In my Hands

Songwriter: Freddie Feldman/Gaskit
Evanston, Illinois

Source of Inspiration: Soul On Ice
Author: Eldridge Cleaver

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Song Title: Don’t Save Me

Songwriter: Beth Thornley
Los Angeles, California

Source of Inspiration: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton

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Song Title: Conformity 451

Songwriter: Norine Braun
Vancouver, BC - Canada

Source of Inspiration: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury

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Song Title: Home to Freedom

Songwriter: Judy Klass
Brooklyn, New York

Source of Inspiration: Kindred
Author: Octavia Butler

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