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Living books about music
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keechivalley.
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Tori
Participantmy daughter has requested books about music. We recently read The Cricket in Times Square, which she adored. Any suggestions on living books about music or picture books about music (for my younger kids)?
mommamartha
ParticipantWe loved ben west and his cat grimlkin. MArtha
Karen
ParticipantLots of people like Opal Wheeler’s books on the great composers.
RobinP
ParticipantThere’s a series of picture books by Anna Harwell Celenza that tells about a composer and one of his works. They also have a CD included of the work. Some titles include Bach’s Goldberg Variations, The Farewell Symphony (Haydn), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky.)
Other picture books I have:
Young Mozart by Rachel Isadora
Mozart by Catherine Brighton
Hildegard’s Gift by Megan Hoyt
The Boy Who Loved Music by David Lasker (Haydn)
Handel and the Famous Sword Swallower of Halle by Bryna Stevens
Handel Who Knew What He Liked by M.T. Anderson
Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pickney
Tchaikovsky Discovers America by Esther Kalman
Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera by Anne Siberell
Can You Hear It? from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (book and CD- I really like this)
Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes
And we’ve always loved the Opal Wheeler books and most have been reprinted.
keechivalley
ParticipantWe just read several great books about Beethoven:
Beethoven by Opal Wheeler
The Thirty Nine Apartments by Jonah Winter
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol
The Heroic Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza
Honestly, we enjoyed them all! The Heroic Symphony really helps you understand the story being told in a piece of classical music. Don’t miss this one!
(Actually we read these while doing a study on ears and eyes – here: https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2016/08/reading-through-hearing-ear-and-seeing.html
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