Baby Dance, by Ann Taylor
E Taylor (board book)
For babies who are responding to music and movement, here's a playful poem that has father and child dancing lovingly across the pages.
Baby Danced the Polka, by Karen Beaumont
E Beaumont
It's nap time at the farm, but one un-sleepy baby has a different plan... Baby wants to dance.
Rock-a-baby Band, by Kate McMullan
E McMullan
Ten babies sing, dance, and use a variety of instruments to make music together. Contains sing-along CD.
Gabriella's Song, by Candace Fleming
E Fleming
A young girl finds music all around her as she walks about thecity of Venice, Italy, and she shares her song with everyone shemeets.
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello, by Barbara Gariel
E Gariel
An adaptation of the folk rhyme "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly," featuring musical instruments.
Max Found Two Sticks, by Brian Pinkney
E Pinkney
Although he doesn't feel like talking, a young boy responds to questions by drumming on various objects, including a bucket, hat boxes, and garbage cans.
Manuelo the playing mantis, by Done Freeman
E Freeman
A praying mantis who longs to make music gets help from a spider named Debby Webster.
Zin! zin! zin! : a violin, by Lloyd Moss
E Moss
Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical Performance.
Daddy played music for the cows, by Maryann N Weidt
E Weidt
A young girl grows up on a farm to the sound of music from the radio her father plays in the barn.
Bearobics : a hip-hop counting story, by Vic Parker
E Parker
Count the animals as they dance to the lively music in the forest.
Heaven's All Star Jazz Band, by Don Carter
E Carter
A young boy imagines his grandfather playing with jazz musicgreats up in heaven.
Music Over Manhattan, by Mark Karlins
E Karlins
Perfect Cousin Herbert always gets all the attention until Uncle Louie starts teaching Bernie how to play the trumpet.
Little Lil and the Swing - Singing Sax, by Libba Moore Gray
E Gray
When Little Lil's mother gets sick, Uncle Sudi Man pawns hissaxophone to buy medicine, but Little Lil knows that it is her uncle's jazz music that will really help her mother feel better.
Music, Music for Everyone, by Vera B. Williams
E Williams
Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street Band and earns money to help her mother with expenses while her grandmother is sick.
Something Special for Me, by Vera b. Williams
E Williams
Rosa has difficulty choosing a special birthday present to buy with the coins her mother and grandmother have saved, until she hears a man playing beautiful music on an accordion.
Dancing in My Bones, by Sylvia Andrews
E Adrews
A dancing girl and her friends discover how moving to the music affects all the different parts of their bodies.
When Uncle Took the Fiddle, by Libba Moore Gray
E Gray
Uncle's inspired playing of the fiddle causes sleepy family members to pick up other instruments and join him, while the neighbors come to join the celebration.
Mr. Putter and Tabby Toot the Horn, by Cynthia Rylant
J 428.6 Rylant
Mr. Putter's neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, decides that they should join a band, but finding the right one isn't as easy as it sounds--for them or their pets.
Bravo, Amelia Bedelia, by Herman Parish
J 428.6 Parish
From the time she is sent to pick up the guest conductor, Amelia Bedelia's normal confusion causes quite an uproar at the school concert.
There is Music in a Pussycat, by Richard Thompson (level 1 First Flight Reader)
J 428.6 Thompson
A young boy and his pussycat discover a world of sounds, from the music of the pussycat to a father singing in the shower.
Gus and Grandpa and the Piano Lesson, by Claudia Mills
J Mills
Gus goes fishing for the first time and receives expert guidance from his grandfather.
Gorillas of Gill Park, by Amy Gordon
J Gordon
While spending the summer before seventh grade with his aunt, Willy Wilson finds his first friends ever in the colorful characters who all love the neighborhood park owned by an eccentric old man.
Where in the World, by Simon French
J French
When Ari and his mother leave their home in Germany for a new life and family in Australia, he parts from the grandfather who taught him to play violin, but finds that his music and memories are intertwined.
Cassie Loves Beethoven, by Alan Arkin
J Arkin
Relates the startling effects of Beethoven's music on the Kennedys' new cow.
Love and Roast Chicken: a trickster tale from the Andes Mountains, by Barbara Knutson
J 398 Knutson
In this folktale from the Andes, a clever guinea pig repeatedly outsmarts the fox that wants to eat him for dinner.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: a Nandi tale, by Verna Aardema
J 398 Aardema
A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
The Camel's Lament, by Charles W. Carryl
E Carryl
A poem in which a camel compares his life with that of other animals of the world.
All of you was singing, by Richard Lewis
J 398
A lyrical account of the earth's creation and the advent of Music.
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman
J-B Anderson
Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 -- Twenty-five cents a song -- A voice in a thousand four: Marian fever -- Banned by the DAR -- Singing to the nation -- Breaking barriers -- "What I had was singing."
Savion! My Life in Tap, by Savion Glover
J-B Savion
Examines the life and career of the young tap dancer who speaks with his feet and who choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway show "Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk."
The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
YOUTH AUDIOBOOK CD
AUDIOBK CD DiCamillo
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket
YOUTH AUDIOBOOK CD
AUDIOBK CD Snicket
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
YA Pratchett
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett
YA Pratchett
Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.