I Love Music: My First Sound Book

by Marion Billet, Marion Billet (Illustrator)

Overview

What magical sounds do a guitar, violin, piano, and other instruments make? Find out in this exciting interactive introduction to music that's just right for curious little ones!

Readers of every age will be enchanted by this charming sound board book, which is distinguished by the exceptional quality of the musical sounds that bring every picture to life. I Love Music has a button on every spread, which triggers one of six captivating sounds that introduces a familiar instrument to the reader. An incredibly simple but utterly fascinating interactive book with sounds bound to enchant young readers and ignite an early love of music!

A delightful and compelling book in the My First Sound Book series that everyone in the family will enjoy reading again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338032611
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Marion Billet is the author and illustrator of more than 80 children's books published in 11 different countries. Her adorable characters have appeared in magazines, on stationery and toys, as well as on children's furniture and clothes. For fun, Marion loves to dance and takes dance classes two or three times a week. She currently lives in Paris, France.

Editorial Reviews

2016-08-30
Recorder, piano, violin, guitars, drums, and xylophone are played by a pig, elephant, cat, zebras, bears, and mice respectively, while chips embedded in each page play an appropriate snippet of music. Toddlers and most of their parents won't easily recognize all the tunes. The violin snippet is attributed to Brahms; the piano tune is an obscure section of Mozart's "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"; music for the xylophone and drums are credited to Gallimard Jeunesse, the original French publisher. The book demands some significant leaps of faith. How exactly an elephant can sit at a piano and press the keys isn't at all clear, for instance. All the action takes place in a circus setting, though the tunes are not normally associated with circus acts, nor will toddlers recognize the venue from the illustrations. The cartoonish animals bear little resemblance to any real animal, and the fiddle-playing cat is identifiable only through the text. None of this is likely to bother toddlers, who will quickly find the sound buttons embedded in each board page and delight in pressing them repeatedly to charm (or annoy) their adult companions—who will barely have time to read the brief text before their children are ready to move on to the next noise. Consider this an unessential novelty unless sturdy books with nonanimal sounds are sought. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews