Product Description

Six lively spreads simplifying the seemingly complicated laws and language of music. Children start to make music from a very early age, so by the time they are 6 or 7 they are ready to grapple with notation. In fact the reader of this book can open it with no knowledge of musical notation and close it with a real understanding of music on the page. An entertaining and absorbing read with ingenious pop-ups and moving parts. This book will launch you into a musical world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37419 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 12 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
By the creators of The Terrific Times Tables Book and The Great Grammar Book, The Magnificent I Can Read Music Book is great fun to play with. Full of tabs and flaps it makes the complicated business of learning to read music seem like a game. It is jam-packed with vital information, given in speech bubbles by animal characters such as the cat and her smiling kittens who chorus 'The distance between low C and high C is called an octave. Play them both.' Starting with some simple rhythms to be jiggled to by the pull-up characters and ending with a tiny keyboard and a musical cat pointing out the notes with its tail, it covers the musical alphabet, the length of notes, time signatures and even introduces a few sharps and flats. As background information to learning the clever interactivity is fun to absorb but it may not make complete mastery of reading music very much easier. (Age 7 and over) -- Julia Eccleshare

Amazon.co.uk Review
By the creators of The Terrific Times Tables Book and The Great Grammar Book, The Magnificent I Can Read Music Book is great fun to play with. Full of tabs and flaps it makes the complicated business of learning to read music seem like a game. It is jam-packed with vital information, given in speech bubbles by animal characters such as the cat and her smiling kittens who chorus 'The distance between low C and high C is called an octave. Play them both.' Starting with some simple rhythms to be jiggled to by the pull-up characters and ending with a tiny keyboard and a musical cat pointing out the notes with its tail, it covers the musical alphabet, the length of notes, time signatures and even introduces a few sharps and flats. As background information to learning the clever interactivity is fun to absorb but it may not make complete mastery of reading music very much easier. (Age 7 and over) -- Julia Eccleshare

About the Author
Kate Petty lived in Cornwall with her husband, Mike, before tragically dying from cancer in May 2007. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. The author of a number of novelty and pop-up books, including the innovative The Great Grammar Book and The Wonderful World Book, Kate was also involved in creating amazing books for the Eden Project children's book list. Jennie Maizels studied illustration at Central St Martin's School of Art and Design, and graduated in 1993. The Great Grammar Book by Kate Petty was Jennie's first children's book and has sold a quarter of a million copies. She is the illustrator of six other books in this pop-up series, including The Global Garden, The Super Science Book, The Wonderful World Book, The Magnificent Music Book, The Terrific Times Tables Book, The Perfect Pop-Up Punctuation Book, all by Kate Petty. She is also the author of Finger Food for Babies and Toddlers (Vermillion, 2003). Jennie lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended - for children and their parents
LOVED by children and adults alike - so much fun had by everyone, and kept the kids occupied with pulling and popping and pushing for hours. All these books have made brilliant, much welcomed presents for friends' children - AND they're educational - hurray

buy new stock
This is a lovely book. It's beautiful, entertaining and educational, but

I bought it for my daughter for last christmas and was dissappointed to find the batteries for the keyboard in the back of the book didn't work. We managed to find replacement batteries and it still doesn't work properly as the batteries that were included in the book had corroded ...

So, when buying the book, make sure you buy a new book that hasn't been sitting arround for a long time.