Recommended Books Related to Music for Children
Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Song – Jim Haskins
America, the Beautiful – Lynn Sherr
America, the Beautiful – Wendell Minor
Animal Boogie w/CD – Debbie Harter
Bat Boy and His Violin (The) – Gavin Curtis
Baxter Barret Brown’s Bass Fiddle w/CD – Tim McKenzie
Beating the Drum – Josephine Paker
Beethoven – Anna Carew-Miller
Beethoven Lives Upstairs – Barbara Nichol
Ben’s Trumpet w/CD – Rachel Isadora
Berlioz the Bear – Jan Brett
Best Loved Songs of the American People – Denes Agay
Book for Young Musicians (The) – Shooting Star Press
Carnival of the Animals w/CD – Saint-Saens, Illus. by Sue Williams
Cello of Mr. O (The) – Jane Cutler
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop w/CD – Chris Raschka
Dem Bones – Bob Barner
Disney Collection, Best Loved Songs – Hal Leonard Publishers
Doing the Animal Bop w/CD – Jan Ormerod & Lindsey Gardiner
Don’t Laugh at Me w/CD – Seskin & Shamblin
Duke Ellington – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ella Fitzgerald – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Erie Canal – Cheryl Harness
Famous Children Series by Ann Rachlin (Composers’ Bios)
Farmyard Jamboree (The) w/CD – Margaret Read MacDonald
Fireside Book of Children’s Songs – Marie Winn
First Discovery Series: Music (various authors) w/CD - Illus. by Charlotte Voake
Focus on Sound – Barbara Taylor
Frog Who Wanted to be a Singer (The) – Linda Goss
Froggie Went A-Courting – Marjorie Priceman
Froggie Went a-Courting – Marjorie Priceman
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs – Amy Cohn
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers by Mike Venezia
Gobble, Quack, Moon w/CD – Matthew Gollub
God Bless the Child w/CD – Illus. by Jerry Pinkney
Going to the Zoo – Tom Paxton
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked – Anderson & Hawkes
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands – Illus. by Kadir Nelson
Horace and Morris Join the Chorus – James Howe
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello – Barbara Garriel
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat – Lucille Colandro
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Illustrated by Pam Adams
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly w/CD – Simms Taback
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie – Alison Jackson
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow – Lucille Colandro
I Want to Be a Dancer – Maze/O’Neill Grace
I Wonder Why Flutes Have Holes – Josephine Paker
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong – Roxane Orgill
Imani’s Music – Sheron Williams
Jazz Fly w/CD – Matthew Gollub
Jazz: My Music, My People – Morgan Monceaux Joel Meyerowitz,
(video available – NY City Ballet)
John Coltrane’s Giant Steps w/CD – Chris Raschka
John’s Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon – Doreen Rappaport
Katherine Lee Bates’ America, the Beautiful – Illus. by Chris Gall
Knockin’ on Wood: Story of Peg Leg Bates – Lynne Barasch
Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything (The) w/CD – Linda Williams
Little Stevie Wonder w/CD – Quincy Troupe
Lives of the Musicians – Kathleen Krull
Lost Music (The) w/CD – Kathryn Meyrick
“M” is for Melody: A Musical Alphabet – Kathy-jo Wargin
“M” is for Music – Kathleen Krull
Mama Don’t Allow w/CD – Thacher Hurd
Marsh Music – Marianne Berkes
Meet the Marching Smithereens – Ann Hayes
Meet the Orchestra – Ann Hayes
Mole Music w/CD – David McPhail
Mozart Finds a Melody – Stephen Costanza
Music for the End of Time – Jen Bryant
Musical Life of Gustav Mole (The) w/CD – Kathryn Meyrick
Mysterious Thelonious w/CD – Chris Rashcka
Noteworthy Tale (A) – Mutchnick & Casden
Nursery Rhymes retold & Illus. by Iza Trapani
1. Baa Baa Black Sheep
2. Froggie Went a-Courtin’
3. How Much is That Doggie in the Window?
4. I’m a Little Teapot
5. Itsy Bitsy Spider
6. Mary Had a Little Lamb
7. Oh Where, Oh Where Has my Little Dog Gone?
8. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
9. Shoo Fly!
10. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Nutcracker (The) w/CD – music by Tchaikovsky, (video available)
told by Joel Meyerowitz, Choreography by Balanchine, NYC Ballet
Oh, A Hunting We Will Go – John Langstaff
Onstage and Backstage at the Night Owl Theater – Ann Hayes
Orchestra (The) – Alan Blackwood
Over the River and Through the Woods – Child, Illus. by Van Rynbach
Pet of the Met – Lydia & Don Freeman
Philadelphia Chickens w/CD – Sandra Boynton
Pianist’s Debut (A) – Barbara Beirne
Play Me a Story – Jane Rosenberg
Polly and the Piano w/CD – Carol Montparker
Rap A Tap Tap – Dillon
Ruby Sings the Blues – Niki Daly
Shake, Rattle, and Strum – Sara Corbett
Sound, Noise and Music – Mick Seller
Story of the Orchestra (The) w/CD – Robert Levine
Take Me Out of the Bathtub – Katz & Catrow
Tchaikovsky Discovers America – Esther Kalman
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout – Teri Sloat
This Jazz Man – Karen Ehrhardt
Treasury of Great Kids’ Songs – Edited by Gayle Giese, Warner Bros.
Understanding Music – Usborne Introduction – Judy Tatchell Usborne
Very Young Actress (A) – Jill Krementz
Very Young Musician (A) – Jill Krementz
Star Spangled Banner (The) – Illus. by Peter Spier
Story of Music – Simon Mundy
Stories Behind the Classics by Anna Harwell Celenza
1. Bach’s Goldberg Variations w/CD
2. Haydn’s Farewell Symphony w/CD
3. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue w/CD
4. Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony w/CD
5. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition w/CD
What Charlie Heard: The Story of Charles Ives w/CD – Mordicai Gerstein
When Marian Sang w/CD – Pam Munoz Ryan
Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land w/CD – Illus. by Kathy Jacobsen
World of Ballet (Usborne Book) – Judy Tatchell
Yankee Doodle – Gary Chalk
Yo-Yo Ma: A Cello Superstar Brings Music to the World – Lisa Chippendale
Zin, Zin, Zin the Violin – Lloyd Moss
Compiled by
Rhonda Jamison
Peter Hobart Music Specialist
January 2007
