Let's Play an Instrument: A Music Book for Kids

Cute book for our music loving boys!

Lovely book; does what it says!

Great illustrations. Wonderful way to introduce kids to musical instruments

I have not looked at the book but my daughter sent videos of my almost four-year-old grandson reading/looking at it. He would not look up when she spoke to him---He was that immersed in the book.

i like the concept of this book. i like the instruments included to summarize the different types of instruments. i like that a wheelchair kid is included! i like that a black kid is representative of the guitar class, and i’m curious about the asian kid with the violin (i feel like the black kid with the guitar is kinda cool to include and encourage black children to be interested in the guitar class of instruments when historically there aren’t that many black guitarists, but also if that’s the case, it’s interesting that the violin is represented with an asian kid since there are actually a lot of asian kids who start off on violin). the main issue i have with this book is that it’s soooo wordy. i think it loses the kid’s interest bc there’s so much information. i wish the text was cut down

Very great book.

This is a well written book for kids. My toddler is obsessed with musical instruments, so of course he loves it. Sweet illustrations too!

I received an advance review copy from the publisher. Non-fiction books for the pre-K set are essential to teach young children about things outside their daily lives. Let’s Play an Instrument: A Music Book for Kids by Rachelle Burk and illustrated by Junissa Bianda fits that category perfectly. The book presents an overview of the four core instrumental groups: string, percussion, woodwinds, and brass. It’s an invitation for children and their families to focus on music as fans and potential musicians themselves. Let’s Play an Instrument delves into each instrumental family showing the variety of its members.. For example, for woodwinds, she presents clarinets, oboes, and saxophones. For string instruments, it's violins, the bass, and ukulele. Using a humorous touch, Burk depicts the sounds the instruments make and also provides some simple science (it’s physics) to explain how the sounds are created. To illustrate, for a string instrument, the “harder you press the bow, the louder the sound.” Or a wooden reed vibrates when “you blow into the mouthpiece of a woodwind.” Junissa Bianda illustrates the book in bright pastels. She portrays a diverse group of children celebrating their discovery of the many, many instruments Burk introduces to readers. The boys and girls are diverse. A boy plays the piano from a wheelchair. A girl plays the drums; a boy shakes the tambourine. The book is rich with details. Parents might best be served by dividing the reading of Let’s Play an Instrument: A Music Book for Kids over a few days for an experience both deeper and more manageable. The author and illustrator create a welcome place for all to learn about instruments and how music is made.

Hi there, the book looks great aside from 2 illustrations being doubled. The clarinet page alongside the clarinet with the flute page appear twice where there is supposed to be pictures of drums ("bass, snares, bongos and congas". Is there a way to be sent a new copy?