Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 6 activities: two each in reading, writing, and math
- A note about the theme and the skills it builds
- Picture book suggestions
- Skill-specific information for the teaching adult
- A planning box for each activity
- Note pages for planning and reflection
About the Books
6-pack hardcover journals
The college-ruled pages make these journals perfect for students, professionals, and artists. This pack of 6 includes navy blue, red, yellow, green, sky blue, and pink journals—so choose the color that suits your style!
American Folk Songs for Children
A fully-illustrated collection of over 90 favorite folksongs for children. Perfect for children, parents, and teachers.
Your Name is a Song
Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by...
When Step Met Skip
Step loves stepping up and down the musical staff, but his world is turned upside down when he meets Skip: an adventurous character who isn't afraid of a little risk. Together, they discover that the best music has a little of Step AND Skip!
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
It only takes a few words to create change. It only takes a few people to believe that change is possible. And when those people sing out, they can change the world. "We Shall Overcome" is one of their songs.From the song's roots in America's era of slavery through to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today, "We Shall Overcome" has come...
This Magical, Musical Night
"A symphony soars in rhyming couplets.There are many other introductions-to-the-orchestra titles out there, but few have such charm. Pleasing to the eye and ear." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEWBest Picture Books of 2021--School Library JournalMusic! Music! Oh, how grand! A language we all understand.Get swept away by the musical performance of...
The Science of Song: How and Why We Make Music
What is music? How is it made? And what's changed --- and what hasn't --- about how we listen to it? Here's all the best stuff about the science and history behind our connection to music.Though most of us know we love listening to music, we may not spend much time thinking about how this came to be, or the science, technology, engineering and...
The Children’s Forest: Stories & Songs, Wild Food, Crafts & Celebrations All Year Round
This book is about encouraging children’s natural fascination with the forest and its inhabitants. The authors have produced an enchanting book where imagination, story, and play bring alive the world of the forest. Full of games, facts, celebrations, craft activities, recipes, foraging, stories, and Forest School skills, this is much more than...
Squeak! Rumble! Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: a Sonic Adventure
The creators of Jazz ABZ are back for an encore! With infectious rhythm and rhyme, musical master Wynton Marsalis opens kids’ ears to the sounds around us.What’s that sound? The back door squeeeaks open, sounding like a noisy mouse nearby — eeek, eeeek, eeeek! Big trucks on the highway rrrrrrrumble, just as hunger makes a tummy grrrrumble....
Song on the Wind
This poetic story has universal appeal and spans time and distance with eloquent simplicity. In fourteen gentle stanzas, sleepy-eyed children throughout history draw comfort from bedtime tales and tender lullabies. Here, their innate curiosity about the world around them is satisfied by timeless music that drifts through centuries on the wind....
Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland
The sounds of the city at night create a lively lullaby in this melodious bedtime story from superstar producer and musician Timbaland, Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Christopher Myers, and Kaa Illustration!hey there, darling baby child,you’re safe in here though the storm is wildthe streetlights glow through dark so deepbut safe in sound...
Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo
This lively and lyrical jaunt from actor and author John Lithgow comes with a CD of his celebrated song!Oh, children! Remember! Whatever you may do,Never play music right next to the zoo.They’ll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird,Desperate to play all the music they’ve heard.A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the...
M is for Music
Music and the alphabet have always gone together. Don't kids learn their letters by singing the ABCs? But you've never seen--or heard--a musical alphabet like this one. Beloved tunes. Unusual instruments. Legendary virtuosos. From anthems to zydeco, the language of music and the music of language harmonize in one superb symphony. It's a funky...
M is for Melody: A Music Alphabet
From the oom pah pah of the brass section to the tickle and tease of the keyboard ivories, "M is for Melody" gives a music lesson in alphabet form. Instruments, composers, terms, and even musical styles are examined from A-Z in easy, read-aloud rhymes and expository, accompanied by colorful and engaging artwork. Based on MENC National Standards...
La La La
Conceived by Kate DiCamillo and featuring enchanting illustrations by Jaime Kim, this nearly wordless graphic story follows a little girl in search of a friend.“La la la . . . la.” A little girl stands alone and sings, but hears no response. Gathering her courage and her curiosity, she skips farther out into the world, singing away to the trees...
A Song of Frutas
From Pura Belpré Award–winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero—a singing street vendor in Cuba—and helping him sell his frutas.When we visit mi abuelo, I help him sellfrutas, singing the names of each fruitas we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats,our...
Accordionly
Finalist in the International Latino Book AwardsWhen both grandpas, Abuelo and Opa, visit at the same time, they can’t understand each other’s language and there is a lot of silence. The grandson’s clever thinking helps find a way for everyone to share the day together as two cultures become one family. This unique book includes a bonus fold-out...
88 Instruments
"The rhythmic, onomatopoeic text dances across exuberant watercolors with lots of movement. This celebration of a child’s agency in choosing a means of artistic expression strikes just the right note." --Kirkus "A delightful offering for reading aloud, especially during music-themed storytimes."--School Library JournalFrom New York Times...
Trombone Shorty
The Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award-winning picture book biography from Grammy-nominated musician Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and celebrated illustrator Bryan Collier“Who’s that playing out there?” Bo Diddley asked the New Orleans crowd. It was a small child who’d been nicknamed “Trombone Shorty” because his trombone...
Starboy: Inspired by the Life and Lyrics of David Bowie
A starry-eyed ode to self-expression and staying true to yourself, inspired by the life and lyrics of beloved icon David Bowie.For as long as David could remember, he felt like a stranger on his own planet.As if he’d fallen to Earth from outer space…David Bowie is one of the most influential artists of our time, beloved for his joyful...
Mister Rogers’ Gift of Music
For a young Fred Rogers, music was a gift. It eased the pain of childhood illness and bullying and helped Fred express how he felt when words alone were difficult.As an adult, he gifted his melodies to the world, showing children by example that they can express themselves, cope with negative feelings, and connect to each other through...
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
This picture-book biography of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will inspire young readers to follow the melody within themselvesA 2021 Schneider Family Book Award Young Children Honor BookBefore becoming one of the greatest violinists of all time, Itzhak Perlman was simply a boy who loved music. Raised by a poor immigrant family in a tiny Tel...
I Am Mozart, Too: The Lost Genius of Maria Anna Mozart
To everyone who has heard of my famous younger brother but has never heard of me.I Am Mozart, Too is a picture book biography about Wolfgang's older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, who was a child prodigy and a secret composer, perfect for Women's History Month.Nannerl and Wolfie love playing the harpsichord together. They are so talented, the Mozart...
Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music--popular in the fifties and sixties--has found a new generation of listeners. And Duncan...
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music
Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule—until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and...
Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill. She dreamed of playing the violin, but with...
