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RE: Books That Sing (Or Play): Music in Children's and YA Literature
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From: Kary Henry <khenry_at_deerfieldlibrary.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:36:03 +0000
For the preschoolers I work with, I think of Jim Gill's book, A Soup Opera, which is just a blast to read aloud and perform with the kids. Boom Bah! by Phil Cummings is also a wonderful read-aloud with great rhythm and rhyme . I also like that it encourages music in any form - not just on instrumen ts, but with cups, cans, spoons, sticks! Another title I love for its mess age is Little Pig Joins the Band by David Hyde Costello. Little Pig can't play anything when his entire family pull out Grandpa's old marching band i nstruments but then finds out how important he is when he becomes the drum major! And of course I can't leave off Mole Music by David McPhail!
In terms of nonfiction, I like the biography For the Love of Music: The Re markable Story of Maria Anna Mozart (Elizabeth Rusch), M is for Music by Ka thleen Krull, Ah, Music! by Aliki, and Diane Stanley's Mozart the Wonder Ch ild: A Puppet Play in Three Acts.
Kary
Kary Henry Youth Services Associate Deerfield Public Library 7 N. Waukegan Road (our temporary home) Deerfield, IL 60015 847.580.8962 khenry_at_deerfieldlibrary.org
What I just finished reading: City of Orphans by Avi
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 9:36 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Books That Sing (Or Play): Music in Children's and YA L iterature
From picture book renditions of well-known songs to biographies of musician s to explorations of different musical forms and individual compositions, t here are many rich and lyrical musical offerings in books for children and teens. Consider books about John Coltrane as an example: Among them are Chr is Raschka's playful and brilliant John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atheneum, 2 002), about Coltrane's musical composition of that name; Carole Boston Weat herford's delightful and imaginative Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song o f John Coltrane (Henry Holt, 2008), a consideration of young John Coltrane' s aural influences; and Gary Golio's informative and artful Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane's Musical Journey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) , a pictu re book biography for older readers.
Let's turn up the volume on some of your favorite books about music and mus icians for children and teens!
Megan
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:36:03 +0000
For the preschoolers I work with, I think of Jim Gill's book, A Soup Opera, which is just a blast to read aloud and perform with the kids. Boom Bah! by Phil Cummings is also a wonderful read-aloud with great rhythm and rhyme . I also like that it encourages music in any form - not just on instrumen ts, but with cups, cans, spoons, sticks! Another title I love for its mess age is Little Pig Joins the Band by David Hyde Costello. Little Pig can't play anything when his entire family pull out Grandpa's old marching band i nstruments but then finds out how important he is when he becomes the drum major! And of course I can't leave off Mole Music by David McPhail!
In terms of nonfiction, I like the biography For the Love of Music: The Re markable Story of Maria Anna Mozart (Elizabeth Rusch), M is for Music by Ka thleen Krull, Ah, Music! by Aliki, and Diane Stanley's Mozart the Wonder Ch ild: A Puppet Play in Three Acts.
Kary
Kary Henry Youth Services Associate Deerfield Public Library 7 N. Waukegan Road (our temporary home) Deerfield, IL 60015 847.580.8962 khenry_at_deerfieldlibrary.org
What I just finished reading: City of Orphans by Avi
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 9:36 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Books That Sing (Or Play): Music in Children's and YA L iterature
From picture book renditions of well-known songs to biographies of musician s to explorations of different musical forms and individual compositions, t here are many rich and lyrical musical offerings in books for children and teens. Consider books about John Coltrane as an example: Among them are Chr is Raschka's playful and brilliant John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atheneum, 2 002), about Coltrane's musical composition of that name; Carole Boston Weat herford's delightful and imaginative Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song o f John Coltrane (Henry Holt, 2008), a consideration of young John Coltrane' s aural influences; and Gary Golio's informative and artful Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane's Musical Journey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) , a pictu re book biography for older readers.
Let's turn up the volume on some of your favorite books about music and mus icians for children and teens!
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ ---Received on Fri 19 Apr 2013 04:36:03 PM CDT
