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Title: Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss, Marjorie Priceman ISBN: 0-671-88239-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Emergent readers' gem!
Comment: Being a cello player myself, I believe all children should be exposed to music as soon as possible. This is a great introduction to music, orchestras, and the sounds the instruments make. It's great for emergent readers because of the rhyming and the way the words seem to flow from page to page. The illustrations are beautiful and whimsical. I really like the way the author uses pretty advanced descriptive words for the sounds the instruments make, like 'mournful moan' for the trombone and 'the reeds implore'.
Students will also learn basic information about musical groups, such as what they're called, octet, quintet, etc. A great part of this book is that the musical terminology is not reduced to children's levels. The words are quite large and reflect what is really true about classical musical instruments and musical groups. I think children would enjoy seeing the illustrations and learning about these instruments, and perhaps picking their favorite one. It plants an early seed in their head about orchestral groups, makes music fun, and perhaps creates a new generation of orchestral students.
Rating: 5
Summary: A family favorite and super introduction to music
Comment: Lloyd Moss is DJ for a classical music radio station in New York, and had never written a children's book before his superlative "Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin." Lucky man, he hit it out of the park with his very first attempt.
Moss uses propulsive, rhyming text to introduce children not only to different musical instruments, but to the Italian terms by which their groupings are known (solo, duo, trio and so on). Moss's poetry is enhanced immeasurably by illustrator Marjorie Priceman's vigorous and colorful artwork. Borrowing elements from Chagall, Rousseau, and Bemelmans--without ever stooping to a visually derivative look--Priceman's pictures more than matches the energy of Moss' text. Her colors are lush and saturated: a rich periwinkle, jet black, sunset pink, and lipstick red all work together here, along with shots of teal, orange, grey and other colors. The overall effect is, quite simply, delicious. The whole leaves you wanting more--exactly the effect any children's book should have.
Rating: 3
Summary: Obviously, this is a minority opinion
Comment: As the 20-plus reviews thus far have ALL been five stars! So, take what I say with a grain of salt...
and even I actually mostly like this book (though I know at least one person who actually dislikes the book and won't read it anymore -- she finds the art ugly and the text strained -- but I'm married to her, she can write her own review).
I don't particularly notice the art, I'm usually half-asleep when reading this book to my 4-year-old in bed. But the text does sometimes jar me -- my teeth practically break when I get to the lines that rhyme CELL-o with hell-O (clearly one is supposed to pronounce it HELL-o here, but I can't make myself do it) -- on the other hand, some of it's really quite nice: "with steely keys that softly click//its breezy notes so darkly slick,..." (that ought to give you a sense of it -- if you say that aloud and think "ooh, I like the way those words fit together", and you want to say them to your child, then get this book. If you think "a clarinet's notes are breezy? or slick?"
or you worry about the rhyme of clarinet and septet, then maybe it isn't for you.)
Still, I like the nice twist on counting books, with 1,2,3,
becoming solo, duo, trio, etc. -- and the mouse-cats-dog subplot in the pictures is cute, too.
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Title: Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes, Karmen Thompson ISBN: 0152002227 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 27 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin, Marc Simont ISBN: 006443124X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 25 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Carnival of the Animals : Classical Music for Kids by Camille Saint-Saens, Sue Williams ISBN: 0805061800 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 21 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Musical Instruments from A to Z (Kalman, Bobbie, Alphabasics.) by Bobbie Kalman ISBN: 0865054088 Publisher: Crabtree Pub Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Jazz Fly by Matthew Gollub, Karen Hanke ISBN: 1889910171 Publisher: Tortuga Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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