Can You Hear It? [With CD]

by William Lach and Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book Overview

Illustrated with works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, this title celebrates the world of sound while also introducing young readers to important works of art. It also includes a CD of classical music.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810957213
• ISBN13: 9780810957213
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Nice book, good for learning, did not have the CD

I was very disappointed to find that although it advertises that includes the music CD, there was no cd included. This was not mentioned in the description. I suppose I can look the songs up online. The pictures are excellent. This is a great book to expose children to music and art.

Great book for music class as well as home

I teach first and second grade music. I bought this book so that I would having something extra to do in the case that we had some left over time in class, or if I needed a sub who was not knowledgeable about music. The book includes recordings from "Carnival of the Animals" as well as "An American in Paris," "Flight of the Bumble Bee," "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies," and many other programmatic favorites. The kids love listening and acting out along with the music. My students love this book and ask to read it all the time. AND it's simple enough to use that you do not need to know anything about music to teach with it - so it's a great recommendation if you have a substitute teacher, or if you have parents who want to encourage their children in the area of music. I've already asked our school librarian to get a few copies for our library. Its a great book for any music teacher or parents who wants to encourage their children's active listening skills!

High Quality art and music!

I absolutely adore this book. As a preschool music teacher, I search for ways to make classical music interesting and fun for young children, and I think this book has done it. With colorful, beautiful artwork and fun musical selections, children love listening closely to "find" the items that are "described" in the music. For young children like mine, I pull out this book occasionally to work on critical listening skills by putting on one or two of the pieces at a time. The only thing I would have liked better is a little more variety in the musical pieces. Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Carnival of the Animals are both used 2-3 times.

An Armchair Cultural Experience

This elegant picture book and Cd combo provide adult and child partners at any level of maturity with a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the symphony concert hall at the same time. Page after page provide opportunites for delight,discussion and description. We danced, we laughed and we were amused ,even deliciously frightened, by the music and visual art. Brilliantly done, and available to experience during any season of the year, again and again.

Multisensory Resource

This book has wonderful pictures and the accompanying CD lets the user expand with questions and dialogue. Great resource!

Great way to tie in art, music education for kids.

This book has a collection of 26 paintings and a CD. Each artwork comes with a question, an item to locate on a page. After the item is found you play the CD and try to hear particular thing displayed on a page (like fish swimming in a lake, or bubbles rising to the surface of the water, etc). There are also clues to which instrument will play a particular musical effect that you will be looking for, so you can find it. At the end of the book, there is a short description of each artwork and each music piece that comes with it. We have enjoyed the book very much, and would recommend it to families with young children who are ready for introduction of art and music. The music pieces are all classics such as Vivaldi, Saint-Saens, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, etc. My kids are 8 and 9.