Protestor, patriot, and signer of the declaration of Independence, John Hancock. His life revealed for picture book readers. When the British started imposing unfair taxes on the colonists, John Hancock decided to stand up to the injustice and dedicate himself to the public good. He would later serve as a delegate to the First Continental Congress, president of the Second Continental Congress, and signer of the declaration of Independence. This Founding Father is made accessible to young children through clear and concise text paired with watercolor art. "Using a warm, subdued palette, Himler's paintings bring Hancock and his times to life," says Booklist . Back matter includes a note, a timeline, source notes, a selected bibliography, and recommended websites. For almost thirty years, David Adler's Picture Book Biography series has profiled famous people who changed the world. Colorful, kid-friendly illustrations combine with Adler's "expert mixtures of facts and personality" ( Booklist ) to introduce young readers to history through compelling biographies of presidents, heroes, inventors, explorers, and adventurers. These books are ideal for first and second graders interested in history or who need reliable sources for school book reports.

A unique offering of a book and CD recorded by Neil Sedaka , one of the most popular songs in music history becomes one of the most delightful children's books ever. Rise and shine! It's morning time. The alarm clock's ringing, the birds are singing. Everything's saying: get up, get going! Breakfast is warming, school is calling. The street's are bustling, all the world is stirring. It's sure to be a happy day with this bright and sunny picture book and CD, with new lyrics based on the hit song by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Daniel Miyares's delightful art opens the eyes with its vivid colors, playful details, and adorable collection of animal characters. And to make waking up just a little easier, there's a CD with Neil Sedaka singing this happy song, plus two new songs with lyrics and music by Neil written especially for this CD: LIGHTNIN' JIM and SING. Warm and friendly and full of fun, this is a musical and visual celebration of the everyday joys of home, family, and neighborhood.

(Vocal Selections). Fame: The Musical has been dazzling audiences since its debut in 1988. Originally based off the award-winning 1980 movie, then a long-running television series and even a reality show, the musical follows the lives of a group of aspiring entertainers at New York's High School for Performing Arts. Catchy songs and spectacular dance numbers fill the Broadway hit that has now been produced in nearly 25 countries worldwide. All songs include lyrics, melody line, and chord changes with professionally arranged piano accompaniment. Titles: Prologue: Pray I Make P.A. * Hard Work * I Want to Make Magic * There She Goes!/Fame * Let's Play a Love Scene * Mabel's Prayer * Think of Meryl Streep * Dancin' on the Sidewalk * These Are My Children * In L.A. * Let's Play a Love Scene (Duet) * Bring on Tomorrow * Fame.

The extraordinary story of the composer Charles Ives. "Sometimes little Charlie lay in his crib just listening. He heard his motherâ s long dress as she moved around his room. He heard big clocks and little clocks. He heard wagons and horse hooves. He heard dogs and crickets and the church bell next door." Charlie listened all through his boyhood, and as he grew into a man, he found he wanted to re-create in music the sounds that he heard every day. But others couldnâ t hear what Charlie heard. They didnâ t hear it as music â only as noise. In this daring and original book, Mordicai Gerstein graphically translates the audible into the visible â filling his pictures with noise â to tell the story of Charles Ives (1874â 1954), a great musical innovator who let neither criticism nor public scorn keep him from composing music that expressed all that he heard in the world. He was finally recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1947. What Charlie Heard is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Walt Disney's The Princess and the Frog is an animated comedy set in New Orleans. This modern twist on a classic tale stars a beautiful girl named Tiana, a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical Louisiana bayous. Our collection of magical songs from this amazing soundtrack features Anika Noni Rose ( Dreamgirls ), Ne-Yo and Academy Award -winning composer Randy Newman. Jazz, zydeco, blues, gospel and more make for an unforgettable musical experience the entire family will enjoy. The songbook also features fantastic full-color art from the film! Eight songs in all: Almost There * Dig a Little Deeper * Down in New Orleans * Friends on the Other Side * Gonna Take You There * Ma Belle Evangeline * Never Knew I Needed * When We're Human.

A visually stunning introduction to classical music from piano maestro and bestselling author James Rhodes. " Rhodes makes classical music accessible, relatable, and exciting . It is hard not to be swept up - Rhodes writes with such enthusiasm and thoughtfulness that readers will be dying to listen to the Spotify playlist he shares ... Rhodes makes history and music come alive. Surreal, psychedelic collages ... make the book an eye-popping visual experience as well. A dynamic and infectious introduction to classical music. " - Kirkus Bach. Mozart. Beethoven. Old guys with curly wigs, right? But trust me: those composers were the original rock stars. Let me introduce you to some of the most breathtaking and magnificent pieces of music ever created. We'll meet the rebels and revolutionaries who wrote them - did you know Beethoven peed into a chamber pot he kept under his piano? - and find out why they're responsible for every track on your phone today. The world of classical music is going to blow your mind. So take some time out to listen to the online playlist I've curated for you as you read. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Ravel: the perfect introduction to classical music. With jaw-dropping artwork and avant-garde design, this visually exquisite celebration of classical music is encased in a stunning slipcase and features a large fold-out poster as well as an accompanying online playlist of the pieces being discussed. It's the perfect gift for older children and adults alike who want to explore classical music, but aren't quite sure where to begin.

A family of dedicated birders presents an illustrated tribute to birds featuring a combination of scientific facts, folklore, poems, and songs.--

This richly illustrated songbook from beloved children's book writer Jane Yolen celebrates the American way of work. From the railway workers who built our transcontinental train system to the astronauts who landed on the moon, the jobs that built and maintain our country are honored in this lively collection of folk tunes and new songs. Weathervanes, whirligigs, quilts, signs, and other folk art pieces are the perfect accompaniment for such classic and current favorites as "Barber, Spare Those Hairs," "Git Along, Little Dogies," "Casey Jones," and "Fire in the Sky." Great for family or classroom sing-alongs, these thirty songs, arranged for piano and guitar, give children and adults anthems to match their ambitions. Book jacket.

A rock 'n' roll band to die for.... When fourteen year old Callie McCallan scores a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of the famous band Brass Rat, she's thrilled. Peter Gringras is so cool. When he plays his flute, it's as if he has some kind of hypnotic power. But there is something strange about him, something Callie can't quite put her finger on. Then, on Halloween night, Callie's little brother Nicky disappears, along with all the other children in town. It's crazy, but Callie thinks she knows where the children have gone--and who took them. To prove it, and to rescue Nicky and the other children, Callie must journey to a mythical world filled with fantastical creatures. A world from which there may be no return....

On Jamaica, a place full of magical sunsets and shining sand, a man thinks of his family and remembers the sounds of calypso during carnival. "I hope the day will never come", he sings, "that I can't awake to the sound of drum". Harry Belafonte's classic song, combined with Alex Ayliffe's bright, energetic artwork, will enchant young and old alike.

This Caldecott Honor book from beloved illustrator Peter Spier is a spirited take on a classic American folk song. "[Spier's] finely detailed, action-packed New England autumn vistas are almost startlingly beautiful."— The New York Times Over fifty years after he won a Caldecott Honor for The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, legendary illustrator Peter Spier went back to this time-honored favorite in 2014 to paint the half of the book that was originally printed in black and white. In this glowing, restored vision of Spier’s beloved classic, follow the wily fox as he roams a sleepy New England town in search of a meal, with tones and textures so vivid you can almost hear the crackle of crisp fall leaves and the ripples of the river in the moonlight.

The seminal work of Ruth Rubin, a pioneering collector, singer, folklorist, writer, and crusader for the vanishing legacy of the Yiddish world, "Voices of a People" remains the only general introduction to Yiddish folksong. A priceless collection of song texts in Yiddish and English, as well as a selection of tunes Rubin transcribed, this volume brings the Jews' ancient, itinerant culture alive through children's songs, dancing songs, and songs about love and courtship, poverty and work, crime and corruption, immigration, and the dream of a homeland. Rubin's notes and annotations weave each text into the larger story of the Jewish experience. Noted scholar Mark Slobin provides a new foreword that includes a biographical sketch of Rubin and an assessment of her contributions over a lifetime of collecting, absorbing, and disseminating Yiddish folksong.

Illustrates the nursery rhyme and children's game about London Bridge falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and music score.

A white youth from New York's East 70's discovers that although trumpet technique is not enough to gain entrance to the soul musician's world, friendship with a top jazzman gives him a broader perspective of his environment as well as of the alternatives the future offers.

Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; his 1850 'Advice for Young Musicians', originally created to accompany his famous 'Album for the Young', remains as relevant today as when it was written. Celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis adds his own extensive commentary to Schumann's words of wisdom. The advice is by turns practical, humorous, and profound, making this volume a must for all aspiring musicians of all ages and standards.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. Contents below: Akiho: Into the Woods (Act I Opening Into the Woods ) Bates: Very Put Together ("Putting it Together" Sunday in the Park with George ) Beglarian: Perpetual Happiness ("Happiness" Passion ) Bermel: Sorry/Grateful ("Sorry-Grateful" Company ) Bischoff: The Ballad of Guiteau ("The Ballad of Guiteau" Assassins ) Bolcom: A Little Night Fughetta ("Anyone Can Whistle" Anyone Can Whistle and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Brown: Birds of Victorian England ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird" Sweeney Todd ) Bunch: The Demon Barber ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" Sweeney Todd ) Childs: Now ("Now," "Later" and "Soon" A Little Night Music ) Daugherty: Everybody's Got the Right ("Everybody's Got the Right" Assassins ) de Mare: Sunday in the Park - Passages ( Sunday in the Park with George ) Golub: A Child of Children and Art ("Children and Art" Sunday in the Park with George ) Gordon: Every Day a Little Death ("Every Day a Little Death" A Little Night Music ) Gosfield: A Bowler Hat ("A Bowler Hat" Pacific Overtures ) Heggie: I'm Excited. No, You're Not. ("A Weekend in the Country" A Little Night Music ) Hersch: No One Is Alone ("No One Is Alone" Into the Woods ) Iverson: Send in the Clowns ("Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Kahane: Being Alive ("Being Alive" Company ) Kline: Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree) ("Someone in a Tree" Pacific Overtures ) Leon: going . . . gone ("Good Thing Going" Merrily We Roll Along ) Lorenz: The Worst Empanadas in London ("The Worst Pies in London" and "A Little Priest" Sweeney Todd ) Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll ("That Old Piano Roll" Follies ) Moravec: I Think About You ("Losing My Mind" Follies ) Muhly: Color and Light ("Color and Light" Sunday in the Park with George ) Musto: Epiphany ( Sweeney Todd ) Newman: Not While I'm Around ("Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd ) Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch ("The Ladies Who Lunch" Company ) Reich: Finishing the Hat - 2 Pianos ("Finishing the Hat" Sunday in the Park with George ) Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy" Company ) Roumain: Another Hundred People ("Another Hundred People" Company ) Rzewski: I'm Still Here ("I'm Still Here" Follies ) Sharman: Notes on "Beautiful" ("Beautiful" Sunday in the Park with George ) Sheik: Johanna in Space ("Johanna" Sweeney Todd ) Shire: Love Is in the Air ("Love Is in The Air" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ) Speach: In and Out of Love ("Liaisons" and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Turnage: Pretty Women ("Pretty Women" Sweeney Todd ) Vigeland: Merrily We Roll Along ("Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Hills of Tomorrow" Merrily We Roll Along )

A collection of lullabies from seventeen different countries, with text in the appropriate language and in English, each illustrated by an artist native to the country.

Alfred is pleased to present the album-matching folio for Barbra Streisand's CD, Guilty Pleasures. Guilty Pleasures is Barbra Streisand's 2005 collaborative album with producer/songwriter/vocalist Barry Gibb. The release of Guilty Pleasures comes 25 years after the pair's first multi-platinum album, Guilty, which made pop music history as a worldwide chart-topping smash released in 1980. This book provides the lyrics with piano and chord arrangements for all the songs on the record. Titles are: Come Tomrrow * Stranger in a Strange Land * Hideaway * It's Up to You * Night of My Life * Above the Law * Without Your Love * All the Children * Golden Dawn * (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away * Letting Go.

A treasury of sure-fire hits from around the world to suit every mood: for morning and evening, for making noise, for making nonsense, for playing games. The arrangements are especially suited to an amateur pianist. Guitar chords are given.