Hawkins Hollow Kids Songs
The Book-Due Drum Song
Promise: Kaydence checks when the book is due, Alice inspects its pages and cover, and Zylar receives the on-time return before anyone chooses another title.
The part everyone joins: “Check the date, check the book—return it ready for the next look.”
Lyrics
Soft Due-Date Tap Count-In
Kaydence: Tap the date, then read it through.
Alice: Check the book before it’s due.
On the path, one book rides near.
Kaydence reads the card out clear:
“Return today before day’s end.”
Alice says, “We’ll check it, friend.”
Check the date, check the book—
Return it ready for the next look.
I can read; you can inspect
Cover, pages, spine, and edges.
Tap once softly, close it right—
Bring it back before tonight.
By the pond, they stay on land.
Alice holds the book in hand.
Pages clean and corners flat;
No loose paper, food, or mark.
Kaydence checks the cover too:
“Spine stays firm; the title’s true.”
Alice closes, holds it dry.
“Ready now to travel by.”
Check the date, check the book—
Return it ready for the next look.
I can read; you can inspect
Cover, pages, spine, and edges.
Tap once softly, close it right—
Bring it back before tonight.
Borrowed stories travel round.
Keep them clean and keep them sound.
Return this one before you choose
Another book that you may use.
Underneath the old oak branch,
Zylar waits beside the stand.
Kaydence shows the due-date card.
Alice passes the book with care.
Zylar checks the book and says,
“On time, clean, and ready next.”
She sets it in the return tray.
Then they choose another day.
“Make-believe the pages drum:
Next reader, here your story comes!”
No real page can know or play;
That is just their book-return beat.
Check the date, check the book—
Returned and ready for the next look.
We can read, inspect, and bring
Borrowed stories back again.
Tap once softly, tray in sight—
Book came back before tonight.
About This Song
Age lane: S3 — Early Elementary, approximately ages 5–8.
Theme: Website freebie song for Library Responsibility; borrowed things return on time and ready for others.
Energy: Calm, steady, and satisfying; approximately 84 BPM with a due-date tap pattern.
Estimated duration: About 2 minutes.
Participation: Check the due-date card, inspect the book together, then return it before choosing another. Children may tap, point, turn imaginary pages, gesture, or listen.
Ways to Join In
- Leader/response: Kaydence may call the due date; Alice or the group answers with the condition check; Zylar confirms the return.
- Participation choices: Children may tap, point, mime turning pages, show a closed-book gesture, speak, sign, or listen.
- Child ownership: On “you can inspect,” a child may choose one condition check, ask for adult help, or pass.
- Library-care boundary: Use clean, dry hands and keep borrowed books away from water, food, and rough handling. Return procedures follow the actual library’s directions.