This Is Music: Horns
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Make music with this hands-on introduction to the four instrument families: drums, horns, strings, and voice in this new board book series by a world-renown music educator.
What do a trumpet, a tuba, and a conch shell have in common? They are all horns! This first introduction to instruments in the horn family begins with a simple explanation of what defines a horn. Young readers are then invited on a global exploration of a variety of brass and wind instruments and are encouraged to find horns of their own in the world around them.
Each title in the THIS IS MUSIC series features an interactive novelty musical element that invites the reader to "play" the book!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Taking an expansive approach to musicality and instrumentation, this interactive board book introduces horns as making "loud sounds when you take a big breath and blow." Informational, onomatopoeic text by Rajan references horns around the world and across cultures, including instruments such as the trumpet and the Tibetan dung-chen as well as found objects like a conch shell and a paper towel tube. Yakunova's high-contrast illustrations, which include people of varying skin tones, portray a broad array of items from the titular category (a double reed instrument, a truck's air horn, and objects that amplify the human voice all seem to fit the brief). The suggestion of household "horns" such as funnels encourage readers toward creative, musical play, and a hole in the book's final pages invites kids to create their own sound. Concludes with a labeled illustration of all objects discussed. Ages 1–3.
