Musical Tales & Tunes

A project of the Children's Kindness Network, this also introduces the instruments of the orchestra.

 Paul Tripp tells a lovable intro to instruments to George Kleinsinger's music and the voices of Dick Van Dyke & Pearl Bailey.

Hear Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett and visit The Boys Choir of Harlem and street musicians with LeVar Burton.

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.

In the book by Lloyd Moss, a clever counting rhyme introduces instruments and ensembles.  Filmed on locationat Julliard School, LeVar Burton visits with an orchestra of 8 to 18 year-old and the performers of STOMP!

Storybook in paperback and on Rabbit Ears DVD.