Music Everywhere! by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine, & Cynthia Pon

 Music Everywhere! by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine, & Cynthia Pon 

• Nonfiction

• Grades: Pre-K - Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd

• Awards: None

Summary:

Music Everywhere! is a book about children who love music. The children make music by stomping, clapping, singing, and clapping. The children make music using lots of different instruments. The instruments are played in many ways like shaking, whistling, strumming, and thumping. The children think it's fun to play and perform and they can use music to show different moods. The children can play music in school, at home, or in their neighborhoods. The book ends by saying music brings people all over the world together and the children love it.

Evaluation:

Music Everywhere! would be a fun book to use in my classroom. This is an informational book on the Humanities. Music Everywhere! focuses on music and would be great for engaging students’ curiosity on the topic. This book provides a brief text with uncomplicated illustrations that are essential to conveying information about music. The book gives accurate factual information about the ways to play an instrument, how instruments look and sound, and where instruments can be played. I would use this book in my classroom because it is the appropriate reading level for second grade and it would be engaging for this age. Music Everywhere! would be a great book for a unit on the foundation of music literacy where students are learning to identify instruments and describe musical sounds.