Animal Cracker Suite is a set of four original poems arranged for speech chorus, body percussion, and percussion ensemble. Twenty-one additional original poems are included for teachers and students to make their own musical settings.

Introduction - Part I: Animal Cracker Suite - Instrumentation and Abbreviations - The Poems - Suggestions for Performance - 1. The Bullfrog - 2. Starfish - 3. Laughing Hyena - 4. A Woodpecker - Part II: Poems Set Rhythmically - Merry-Go-Round - Jacob - The Spider Plant - The Magic Carpet - Let's Pass Our Shoes - Toronto Song - Dinosaur - Milkman - Part III: Other Poems for Musical Setting - Timothy Turtle - Graduating - Baby Bug - The Clockman - Fantasy Island - Mammals - Under the Mistletoe - Halloween - Slippery Seapuppy - There's a Ghost - The Happy Little Family - Fifty Nifty Sailors - The Death and Birth of Autumn - Two Musicians - I'm Sick of Being Sick - The North