Including words and music for 42 songs. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Singing Family of the Cumberlands will delight readers in all walks of life. The “singing family” of which Jean Ritchie writes is that of her parents, Balis and Abigail Ritchie, and their fourteen children, all born and reared in Viper, Kentucky, deep in the Cumberland Mountains. Oak Publications. LCCN: 55-5554.