Welcome to Part 2 of my book pics for this season—kids edition. Here you’ll find a selection of favorite books for children chosen by our kids and grands, as well as music students, and parents. You know when kids ask for a book again and again (and parents have it memorized) that it’s a keeper.

Included are works of fiction and non-fiction. The books are in no particular order. Enjoy! (PS; We will not judge you if you should happen to gift some of these to your own studio)

Picture Books

  • Because, Willems, 2019
  • Here Come the High Notes, Marka, 2019
  • The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Ingalls & Macdonald, 2010
  • What a Wonderful World, Thiele & Weiss, 2014
  • The Music of the Sea, Isern & Chicote, 2017
  • Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo, Lithgow, 2013
  • M is for Melody: A Music Alphabet, Wargin & Larson, 2006
  • The Bear, the Piano, the Dog, and the Fiddle, Litchfield, 2019
  • The Bear and the Piano, Litchfield, 2016

Novels for Older Kids

  • The Composer is Dead, Snickett & Ellis, 2009
  • Echo: A Novel, Ryan, 2019
  • Dragonsong, McCaffrey, 2003
  • Dragonsinger, McCaffrey, 2003

Stories Plus Scores/CDs

  • The Amazing Incredible Shrinking Piano, Cline and Oliver, 2015
  • The Carnival of the Animals, Prelutsky, 2010
  • Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs, Boynton 2013
  • Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo, Boynton, 1996
  • Blue Moo: 17 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never, Boynton, 2007
  • Philadelphia Chickens: a Too-Illogical Zoological Musical Revue, Boynton, 2002

Music History and Composers

  • Why Beethoven Threw the Stew, Isserlis, 2001
  • Why Handel Waggled His Wig, Isserlis, 2006
  • Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought), Krull, 2013
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