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The Story Orchestra: the Planets: Press the Note to Hear Holst's Music by Jessica Courtney Tickle
audie_reads's review
5.0
This was such a fun picture book! The interactive music feature will be a nice touch as well. The illustrations are beautiful and the information is perfect for children wanting to learn more about the planets!
nickimags's review
adventurous
informative
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
This is a wonderful children’s non-fiction picture book. It’s actually part of a new-to-me series introducing children to famous classical music through words, pictures and short excerpts of music.
This book is all about Helen and Tim, a brother and sister who travel through space visiting the planets in the solar system. To accompany each planet they visit there are buttons to press that play small excerpts of music from Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
I actually listened to my CD of The Planets whilst looking at the book and loved how the illustrations worked really well with the music, along with the facts about each planet that the children visited. I actually read this on my PC so was able to enjoy the brilliant illustrations in a bigger format, and the quality was excellent.
At the back of the book is a short biography about Gustav Holst with details about his composition of The Planets. Along with this, you can replay the musical excerpts and, learn about the instruments, rhythms and musical techniques that he used.
I love classical music, and really wish that this series had been around when my son was a child, as he would have really enjoyed it.
Highly recommended as the perfect introduction to classical music for children, plus it and would make a fantastic Christmas gift!
Thanks so much to NetGalley and Frances Lincoln Children’s Books for my digital PDF copy via Adobe Digital Editions.
This book is all about Helen and Tim, a brother and sister who travel through space visiting the planets in the solar system. To accompany each planet they visit there are buttons to press that play small excerpts of music from Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
I actually listened to my CD of The Planets whilst looking at the book and loved how the illustrations worked really well with the music, along with the facts about each planet that the children visited. I actually read this on my PC so was able to enjoy the brilliant illustrations in a bigger format, and the quality was excellent.
At the back of the book is a short biography about Gustav Holst with details about his composition of The Planets. Along with this, you can replay the musical excerpts and, learn about the instruments, rhythms and musical techniques that he used.
I love classical music, and really wish that this series had been around when my son was a child, as he would have really enjoyed it.
Highly recommended as the perfect introduction to classical music for children, plus it and would make a fantastic Christmas gift!
Thanks so much to NetGalley and Frances Lincoln Children’s Books for my digital PDF copy via Adobe Digital Editions.
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