Book Recommendations

• Rin, Rin, Rin: Do, Re, Mi - This lyrical bilingual story, written in both English and Spanish, follows a young child who asks his parents to "sing to me, say letters to me, rhyme with me, count with me, read with me.
• Giraffes Can't Dance - Gerald the giraffe longs to dance, but his legs are too skinny and his neck is too long.
• Meet the Orchestra - This lyrical romp through the orchestra begins with animal musicians slowly gathering for the evening performance. Poetic descriptions suggest the sounds of the instruments, and lively watercolor illustrations capture the playful essence of each musician and musical instrument
• My Family Plays Music - Ping! Ping! Cha-cha-cha! In this lively introduction to different kinds of music, a little girl tries out lots of instruments so she can play with her whole family!
• Max Found Two Sticks - Max picks up the sticks and begins tapping out the rhythms of everything he sees and hears around him...the sound of pigeons startled into flight, of rain against the windows, of distant church bells and the rumble of a subway. And then, when a marching band rounds Max's corner, something wonderful happens.
• The Philharmonic Gets Dressed - "It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing.
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! - When this book begins, the trombone is playing all by itself. But soon a trumpet makes a duet, a french horn a trio, and so on until the entire orchestra is assembled on stage.
• Los Mariachis
• The classic rhyme "Ten Little Monkeys" gets a fun spin with a roving Mariachi band!
• Pete the Cat Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Pete the Cat takes on the classic children's bedtime song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
• Sarai Saves the Music A young girl is going to lose her band program, can she save it? (This is good for 2-5 graders)
• Tito Puente, Mambo King/ Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo
• Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
• Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
• The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano
• Singing in the Rain
• The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
• Becoming Bach
• The Bear, The Piano, The Dog, And The Fiddle
• The Bear and the Piano
• The Really Awful Musicians
• Why Beethoven Threw The Stew (And Lots More Stories About the Lives of Great Composers)
• Bach, Beethoven and the Boys