A music and color-filled introduction to musical sound and symbol for 4- to 10-year-olds. This beautifully illustrated book explains such concepts as tempo and dynamics, as well as standard notation, and the accompanying CD enhances the visuals. Cheetah, gorilla, frolicking frogs and other critters introduce some of the nuts and bolts of music’s written code and demonstrate how "special effects", such as volume and speed, can really make written notation come alive!

• 32 pages of full-color illustrations.
• Notated melodies to familiarize children with standard musical notation and symbol.
• Companion CD containing the story "Making Real Music," plus 11 original creature pieces featuring melodies by young musicians.
• Lesson plan suggestions, "Creature Feature in the Classroom", are available at no additional cost with purchase of the book.  Please request the lessons plans when you place your order.  These supplementary lesson plans extend the learning to apply to classical repertoire, and can be used as the basis for a camp or music appreciation class.

This creative book is suitable for teaching studio or in-home use. Excellent for homeschoolers because of the movement and listening suggestions in the lesson plans.

A product of Jane Singhal & Daria Kingman