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.
LK009 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Drawn by Kerry O'Connor Hood.
Scenes abound of Salzburg, Leopold, Nannerl, and Wolferl along with the royal
settings and people who marveled at the Mozart genius. Also included are pages
devoted to several operas and L. Mozart's meeting with Haydn ". . .your son
is the greatest composer known to me. . .", and Mozart's meeting with
sixteen-year-old Beethoven, about whom Mozart said, "Keep your eyes on him;
some day he will give the world something to think about."
