Baby Beats: Let's Learn 4/4 Time!
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Read, clap, and sing in 4/4 time! Count the beats like a conductor with the adorable animals in the marching band.
Get your baby smiling and clapping along with you as you discover a love of music together! Clap on the first syllable of each word—and don’t let go until the word is done. Before long, you’ll be clapping to the marching beat.
In BABY BEATS: LET'S LEARN 4/4 TIME, you’ll love to:
- Engage young readers with hands-on interaction, percussion, and song
- Build baby’s vocabulary by connecting words with illustrations
- Stimulate baby through multisensory reading experiences
- Inspire the love of conducting music for ages to come
Play conductor in other time signatures with the BABY BEATS series: LET'S LEARN 3/4 TIME and LET'S LEARN 2/4 TIME!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Animalian marching band members move from practice to performance in this board book introduction to musical notes and meter. As an array of creatures sporting red jackets and neat black boots gather on a daisy-sprigged lawn, musical bars form in the sky above. Text establishes quarter notes as the baseline of 4/4 time. ("Count out loud," the text urges, as "One! Two! Three! Four!" appears in four-count bars.) Subsequent spreads key four-syllable words to whole notes ("Alligator!"), two-syllable words to half notes ("Lion! Tiger!"), and monosyllabic words to quarter notes ("Fox! Cat! Rat! Bat!"). The unconventional treatment may prove confusing (Mary is transcribed as a half note instead of the traditional two quarter notes), and the final spread uses symbols and lyrics not previously introduced, but Stubbings's animals, which march with verve, should delight the intended audience. Simultaneously available: Let's Learn 2/4 Time! and Let's Learn 3/4 Time! Ages up to 3.
