Tune up a milk carton guitar and get ready for a kitchen concerto in the key of utensils major! Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff offer dozens of ideas that encourage children to unlock their musical creativity using everyday objects. Kids will be inspired as they turn a shower hose into a trumpet or pair zippers and Velcro to make their own percussion ensemble. With ideas for creating and p…
Uses sound words to introduce music and types of musical instruments, continuing to add more and more instruments until an orchestra is formed.
Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her voice, the strength of her character, and the struggles of the times in which she lived, it is only part of her story. Like the operatic arias Marian would come to sing, Rya…
Get in tune with keyboard instruments. Discover how keyboard instruments make music. Explore how different keyboard instruments are used around the world, from the piano to the harmonium. This book includes an activity that lets you find out for yourself how musical instruments make sounds. Questions that reinforce key concepts are a great feature of this book.
The 'Musical Instruments' series provides a music resource that classifies musical instruments according to traditional groupings of the orchestra. Each title focuses on one instrument to show the characteristics of a group and presents the music in a modern multi-cultural and technological context.
Get in tune with woodwind instruments. Discover how woodwind instruments make music. Explore how different woodwind instruments are used around the world, from the recorder to the Indian pungi. This book includes an activity that lets you find out for yourself how musical instruments make sounds. Questions that reinforce key concepts are a great feature of this book.
What sorts of instruments are played by blowing them? Find out in this title, all about instruments you blow. Introduces the woodwind family of instruments and explains how they are played by blowing.
What is Love? presents a multicultural point of view on the themes of goodwill and tolerance. The author challenges the child's own natural curiosity to reflect on these contemporary issues. Setting a friendly tone and offering an even-handed approach, What is Love? shapes cohesive and easy examples for any child (or grown-up) to consider. This book follows the success of author Etan Boritzer's…
Cooking can be fun and easy! Follow these simple photographic instructions to learn how to make a delicious, healthy pizza. • Lilac/Band 0 books wordless that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless instruction text. • Ideas for guided reading at the back of the book provide practical support and stimulatin…