Great Books for Kids!!

using music to encourage literacy

Welcome to my page of *ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC* books for elementary kids. I'm an elementary music teacher and I have put together a list of great books that children absolutely LOVE and that use music to encourage reading and love of books.  I have tried out multiple versions of several of these titles and found the one that is the best!

I buy several books every year for my school music room -- these are my favorites!  I am partial to books that have lots of color, very good artwork, and are a good size so many children can see it.  These are great resources for an elementary music teacher, an elementary classroom teacher, or for a parent who wants to encourage their child to love books.  Using music along with literature just increases their enjoyment of reading.
Teachers: use these books as a starting point for Elementary Music Lesson Plans or classroom lesson plans.  
Parents: these books will be your children's favorites, to be read again and again.

Each of these books are linked to amazon.com for more information.  
If you have found a great book that you would like to see on my list, please email me.


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Music Teacher Resource
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The Big Book of Musical Games (by Pressnall)
 

Great Books & Music for Christmas 

for elementary children

Be sure to check out the other age-graded pages at left
Christmas Magic

This is my all-time favorite CD to use with children at Christmas time. It has a great collection of traditional and fun Christmas songs all in a singable children's style. It includes:

•Santa Claus is Coming to Town
•Jingle Bells
•Up on the Housetop
•I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
•Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
•Jingle Bell Rock
•Frosty the Snowman
•All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
•Winter Wonderland
•Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree




Christmas Magic




For Christmas:

Good King Wenceslas
size: 10.6" x 10.5"

This is a beautiful book of artwork, very colorful.  It is pretty large book and presents the entire Christmas carol by that name, all three verses.
"Ye who will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing."  This line provides an excellent opportunity to talk with children about helping those less fortunate.











I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

My K-2 kids really like this book!!!  

You can download the mp3 from Amazon for $.88!!




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Mar. 2007