Orchestra, the Orchestra!

This is a charming, humorous and educational book. The language is appropriate for the intended audience and the illustrations are beautiful. Especially nice was the introduction of a female as conductor (in a male dominated profession), the fact that the book is based on a real conductor and the interactive question and answer exercise, as well as the lesson in conducting. A book that will educate as well as entertain.

My Seven year old daughter just loves this book. She chooses it often at story time. She received the book as a gift for her sixth birthday and it was instrumental( no pun intended!) in her learning to read. She enjoys the catchy rhymes and bright and colorful artwork. I highly recommend this book!

It is rare to find a children's book that teaches kids quite unbeknownst to them. This book tackles a subject that could be difficult to interest kids in (it does not just cover the instruments of the orchestra, but is also a biography of sorts), but they still keep coming back for more. This captivation is due in part to the words which are delivered as lyrically as you imagine the music they speak of to be. Even more exciting to me, though, are the illustrations which are rendered so engagingly that you see them differently upon each reading.

This book so cleverly introduces a child to the symphony and many of it's components. We bought it for all of our nieces and nephews, many of whom take some type of music lessons, and whose parents go to the symphony from time to time. They have all loved the images so much and it's now one of those "what does this instrument say?" books with our two and three year old buddies. Fun,fun,fun!

What a fun and catchy treatment of a very unique subject -- internationally renowned conductor of the Virginia Symphany Orchestra JoAnn Falletta! More and more youth biographies about famous women are being written for young readers but this is one of the best. The illustrations are outstanding -- clear, bright, even funny! The text is as lyrically rendered as the symphany itself. Encore!