Music Themed Reading Books

A Song for Everyone

From a tiny window, way up high, came a delicate tune. A melody, a song, a sound so sweet ...

Day after day, the song drifts on to the breeze and through the town. It makes the old feel young and comforts the lonely. It fills the whole town with joy and kindness. No one knows who sings the song, but they know it is good. Until one day, the music stops.

Can the town work together to save the song for everyone? 

The Story Orchestra- The Carnival of the Animals

One day, two brothers discover a magical animal kingdom behind their bookcase. They are greeted by the royal lion with his shaggy mane; ask for directions from an old lonely tortoise; take a ride on some lumbering elephants; topple a skeleton of dinosaur bones; and swim among a school of shimmering fish. If only they could take them all home...

The Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for children through gorgeously illustrated retellings of classic ballet and program music stories paired with 10-second sound clips of orchestras playing from their musical scores.

Once Upon a Rhyme

It hums and it thrums through day and night the magical, mystical rhythm of life!

Follow the story of music back to the very beginning. Did it start with a stomp or a clap? This playful poem is an ode to the colourful world of music and rhythm.

Yellow Submarine

Join the Beatles as they set off on a magical adventure to bring music and love back to Pepperland in this extraordinary collaboration of talent. Once upon a time (or maybe twice), some 80,000 leagues beneath the sea, there lay a colourful land of music and laughter called Pepperland - a place where ergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band was always playing your song. That is, until the Blue Meanies burst on the scene and chased all the magical music away. 

Eliza Fitzgerald

New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the inspirational life of the First Lady of Song, from her early singing days on the streets of Harlem, to her success as a jazz legend, with the message: 'It's not where you come from, but where you're going that counts.'

First Book About the Orchestra

This lovely book is an ideal way to introduce young children to the sound of beautiful music.

Excellent sound quality transports the listener to the world of the musicians, starting with them tuning up to get ready to play.

This book gives a unique glimpse of how different instruments play together. 

A Treasury of Songs

A Treasury of Songs contains over twenty of Julia Donaldson’s songs, including fun-filled action rhymes, Aesop's fables, and songs based on her best-loved picture books, from Room on the Broom to The Gruffalo. This beautifully produced songbook treasury is illustrated throughout with Axel Scheffler's warm and wonderful artwork, and comes with a CD of all the songs performed by Julia herself.