Category Archives: Picture Books about Music

The Bear, the Piano, the Dog, and the Fiddle by David Litchfield

March 5, 2019 by The Picture Book Review

Here is a beautiful picture book that adeptly explores themes of jealousy, parting with friends, following your dreams, personal regrets, and the enduring power of friendship. It gently shows us human failings and the heartbreak that can follow, but that despite our flaws, true friendship can and does prevail.

Categories: 2019, Picture Books, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Music, UK • Tags: Picture Book, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Jealousy, Picture Books about Playing Music

Music Is… by Brandon Stosuy and Illustrated by Amy Martin

October 17, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

I received a review copy from the publisher. No other compensation was received. Music Is… is a gorgeous board book told in opposites that celebrates a wide variety of musical concepts, instruments, and the people that enjoy them. Beautifully contrasted bright images of people with headphones, bass drums, pots and pans, harps, tambourines, french horns, cassette tapes, records, tubas, banjos, guitars, electric and upright pianos, harpsichords, and cymbals all introduce and reinforce musical concepts while adroitly teaching basic opposites of […]

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