Musical Tales & Tunes

by Martha Rustad, illus. by Kyle Poling

by Bob Dylan, illus. by Jon J Muth.  The classic song illustrated, sung by Dylan, and put in historical context.

How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights by Claire Rudolf Murphy, illus. by Bryan Collier.

by Jack Norworth, illus. by Amiko Hirao, sung by Carly Simon.

George M Cohen song illus. by Norman Rockwell.

illus. by Peter Spier. A Reading Rainbow book.

Illustrations and clear explanations of the science of sounds.

Barn Dance! by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault is the book to read. LeVar Burton visits a Tennessee hoedown, bluegrass music, and clogging lesson at an authentic barn dance.

In Eve Bunting's book a boy travels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with his father to seek his grandfather's name. 

In the book by Margaree King Mitchell, Uncle Jed, a black barber, struggles through the Great Depression to save enough money to open his own barbershop.