From Composer Highlights, an educational coloring book series, by
Leonice Thompson Kidd. The pictures and text on each page of this interesting
series tell the stories of twelve famous composers and their families-their
lifestyles, travels, difficulties, accomplishments, compositions, and maps of
significant places in their lives, as well as customs, clothing fashions,
cities, buildings, instruments of their times. At the beginning of each book
there is a page "Understanding These Words". By choosing the colors to
complete the pictures, students invest some imagination and effort into the
completed stories, aided by a few lines of narrative on each page.
Age 6 up. Good for studio, home school, classroom, camps, gifts or awards.
(For class projects, different pages can be assigned to various students and
then reassembled to complete a study of a selected composer.) Coloring Books are
8 ½ X 11 inches, 32 pages.
LK003 Johannes Brahms. Drawings by Mary Ingles Cote.
This book includes childhood scenes from Hamburg and narrative about his early
studies, friends, and performances. Of particular interest are the illustrations
showing his friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann, the story behind his
"Cradle Song", and some of his favorite activities. . .
". . .he fed the birds and he loved children. . . .He loved fireworks, did
not like to dress up. He also hated writing letters and rejoiced when postcards
became fashionable."
