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.
LK006 George Gershwin. Drawn by Ron E. Dabbs.
The family and New York setting of the Gershwins' early life progress to his
travels and young adult homes and interests. An American in Paris, Porgy and
Bess, Strike Up the Band, and second Rhapsody for Orchestra with Piano, Damsel
In Distress all receive attention, along with his luxurious lifestyle.
