Teaching Resources

Teacher's Notes accompany the Classical Kids Music Box CDs Vol. 1 & 2.

Puppeteer Jim Gamble recreates children's classics with symphonic performances by European orchestras.

This Emmy Award-winning DVD-ROM, from the Classical Kids series is a favorite with kids and now has interactive games.

by Ann Bryant. Billy skates the Moldau river to Smetana's Moldau.

Harry deals with alien space capsules to Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain.

by Wesley Ball. Listening maps, lesson plans and a full-length CD.

by M.T. Anderson, illus. Petra Mathers.

Illustrated by Charlotte Voake and Remi Courgeon, narrated on CD by Michael Cantwell. An excellent all-in-one teaching package for elem.-middle school.

by Charlotte Voake, narrated by Michael Cantwell.  An excellent all-in-one teaching package for elem.⁄middle school.

George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
by Suzanne Slade, illus. by Stacy Innerst.

by Lucy Warner, illus. by Patrick Ackerman.  Learn about 12 composers through action-hero illustrations and listening to their music on Vimeo.   

by Tom Leonard.  Bach saw patterns in everything, which he turned into melodies and song.  The evocative illustrations open a visual door into Bach's vivid imagination of patterns and memories.

by Nina Nolan, illus. by John Holyfield. People might say she was born with nothing. But little Mahalia had something: a voice bigger than she was.

by Anna Wentlent, Charles Grace & Mitch Wyatt. Ages 5-10 learn about composers of all periods with reproducible bios, fun facts, famous works, and pages to color while listening to masterworks.

From the Classical Kids Series CDs. 

The hour-long CD features 30 minutes of engaging narration with music, highlighting the composer’s life and best known works; and 30 min. of music only.

The hour-long CD features 30 minutes of engaging narration about the composer with music; and 30 min. of music only. 

Hour-long CD with 30 min. of engaging narration introducing Schumann and Grieg, and 30 min. of music only.

The hour-long CD features 30 minutes of engaging narration with music, highlighting the composer’s life and works; and 30 min. of music only.

The hour-long CD features 30 minutes of engaging narration with music, highlighting the composer’s life and best known works; and 30 min. of music only