Musical Tales & Tunes

by Mark Greenwood. Carnival time in Trinidad! Join the parade!

by "Uncle Devin" Walker, popular percussionist and children's educator

The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood and Sally Wern Comport

by Samantha Berger, Illus. by Mike Curato. Celebrate the power of the arts and imagination!

by Julia Jordan Kamanda

By Julia Jordan Kamanda, illus. by Sita DeGiulio Das. Explore melody with a pan flute in Peru.

Children playing world instruments in settings around the globe.

Jeanne M. Lee. A deaf/mute Cambodian girl learns to communicate through movement & dance.

by Helaine Becker, illus. by Ron Lightburn  Create hand-clapping patterns to this playful Juba chant from Nigeria. 

by Ann Hayes, illus. by Karmen Thompson. 

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

Mark Rubin, Alan Daniel, narrated by Peter Ustinov on CD.  A superb intro to instruments and the orchestra.

by Mark Rubin, illus. Alan Daniel narrated on DVD by Peter Ustinov.  A superb intro to classical music and the orchestra and its instruments.

Mark Rubin,illus by Alan Daniel

Jeanne M. Lee.  Cambodia, communicating without speech or hearing.  

A Musical Exploration of the Orchestra Using Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 by Carolyn Sloan, illus. by James Williamson.

Meet the instruments of the orchestra in the book by Mark Rubin , narrated with music by Peter Ustinov on CD and DVD.

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.

A little lamb outwits a hungry coyote in this Mexican-American folk tale retold by Verna Aardema. Then explore the Latino culture with LeVar Burton in a visit with the musical group Los Lobos for a fun-filled Mexican fiesta.

In the book by Jeanne Lee, a young Cambodian girl, who cannot hear or speak, is invited to become a dancer in the king's court. She finds a way to communicate through the beauty of movement and dance.