Make Music! By Norma Jean Haynes, Ann Sayre Wiseman, and John Langstaff –OPTIONAL

Make Music! by Norma Jean Haynes, Ann Sayre Wiseman, and John Langstaff, 144 pages. Storeybooks (Thomas Allen and sons), 2019 $27 NONFICTION  

Content: G

BUYING ADVISORY: EL  - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

This book features instrument and music making for kids. It starts with Body music: with things like clapping and drumming. The next chapter is household things, how to use things from your home to make creative music, like pans, colanders, and a fork. There are also chapters on Percussion, Breath Music, Strings, and Instruments that take a workshop to make. The book features tons of photographs, simple to understand text, and interesting facts.

This book is so close to being really awesome, but some of the items are difficult to find (Who has a triangle at their house?) and the workshop instruments chapter is a total loss, maybe one in a hundred children have access to a wood working shop. Other chapters are so amazing with their creative suggestions, like bottle caps on your shoes to make tapping noises or gloves with buttons on them. I wish this book was just a collection of those creative, easy to access, ways to make music.

Reviewer: Stephanie MLS & Author.