Help your child learn about great musicians with this fact-packed guide, clip-art CD, giant wallchart and dedicated website From how modern artists like Jim Hendrix transformed music, to the great composers like Beethoven: let your child discover all about the genius of the world’s best musicians through the centuries. They’ll discover more browsing the dedicated Eyewitness website and downloading 100s of amazing images from the clip-art CD. Then use the giant pull-out wallchart to decorate t...
Legends, Icons & Rebels
by Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, and Jared Levine
Part memoir, part tribute, and all great storytelling ... Music industry veterans Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, Jared Levine, and Sebastian Robertson invite young readers to share with them in celebrating twenty-seven musical legends. Short profiles chronicle personal stories and achievements of extraordinarily talented artists whose innovations changed the landscape of music for generations to come. Carefully compiled like any great playlist, the line-up features originators, rebels, and risk...
This bilingual book allows young readers to enter Celia Cruz's life as she becomes a well-known singer in her homeland of Cuba, then moves to New York City and Miami where she and others create a new type of music called salsa. School Library Journal has named My Name is Celia "[a]n exuberant picture-book biography ...a brilliant introduction to a significant woman and her music."
50 Things You Should Know about Music (50 Things You Should Know about)
by Rob Baker
Introduces some of the most famous jazz horn players, focusing on trumpet and saxophone players.
Discusses the role of drumming in jazz and surveys some of the greatest jazz drummers in history, from Warren Baby Dodds and Arthur Zutty Singleton to Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.
Traces the evolution of the guitar in jazz history and profiles the world's greatest jazz guitarists from the early 1900s to the present.
Rock and Roll - Baby Biographies (Baby Biographies)
by Editors of Whalen Book Works
Prepare to rock ‘n’ roll with your little one as they get introduced to 24 of the greatest bands of all time! Let’s face it, you and your kid are going to disagree about music at some point. Your favorite bands are dinosaurs, their favorite bands are TikTokers. Despite that universal truth, there are other truths that must be recognized: Grass is green; Pasta should be cooked al dente for maximum enjoyment; rock n’ roll will never die. “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” comes on the radio, and it...
John Philip Sousa (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by Mike Venezia
The Science of Song
by Alan Cross, Emme Cross, and Nicole Mortillaro
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 mathematics that are crucial to its existence. This illustrated book explores all of this, starting with the basics - how does sound work? What is music? It details the progression of recorded music, from the phonograph to streaming, covers how everyday items like headphones were created, and includes a look at the science of how we experie...
Introduces musical instruments and music from around the world and chronicles the history of music in the Western world from 1100 to the present.
From Grandmaster Flash to Jay-Z rap has shaped generations and transformed the charts. Bop along with the greats in this adorable baby book that introduces little ones to the rappers that started it all.
A colourful, large-format music information book for 9-13 year olds arranged by topic and suitable for classroom project work. The five sections of the book are also available separately.