Philly Joe Giraffe's Jungle Jazz [With Jazz CD]

by Andy Blackman Hurwitz

Philly Joe Giraffe marches through the jungle with his drum, telling the animals about a big concert at the lake. The animals follow him and are treated to the coolest jungle jam ever The CD that comes with this book will be animal-themed, and will include selections such as aThe Monkey Hopa and aThe Elephant Stomp.a

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843121939
• ISBN13: 9780843121933
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 2 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Missing CD

When I ordered this book it did not say the CD was missing. It was disappointing because I wanted to use the book and CD in my classroom.

Great Childrens Book and CD

This is a great childrens book. It quickly became the favorite book of my two year old son. The CD is also great. He loves to drum along with the music. Like another review said, the only down side is that the CD does not contain a track of someone reading the book. Regardless, it's great.

Great for children

I purchased this as a "center time" activity for my music room. I teach music in public school, Kindergarten only. The drum "lessons" are well done and some of the children have attempted them. The music tracks, to play along with, are excellent. It's great for building music skills. My only wish is that one of the tracks on the CD would simply read-aloud the cardboard book. THis would help our emerging readers. The children are trying to read and they could use the help of a page-by-page reading. With the way it's done, an adult needs to be near-by to either read or explain that sometimes there's a music track after a sentence. If we were just listening together away from the book, it's a fun album.

A hit!

This series is wonderful! Our two-year-old absolutely loves the Baby Loves Jazz series. We bought a few to start out, then ended up buying the whole set. Two months after acquiring them, she is still enamored and requests to listen to them and read them every day. Her favorites? Well, these are the words we hear most often: "Mommy, read Duck and Miles?" or "Daddy, listen to Duck and Miles?" Philly Joe is also high on the list. I recommend them all. The books stand out on their own, but the music is what makes this series really shine. For example, on Duck Ellington's CD, he does a great Monk style on one track, then switches to great impression of Coltrane's classic quartet on the next track, with a very nice McCoy Tyner impression. Lots of variety and high quality make this series worthwhile (though I could have done without Louis Lion's potty tune). Don't forget the Go Baby Go CD as well (a stand-alone CD without a book), which is perhaps a notch above the music on the book CDs. The ABC tune is her favorite on that one.

Fun, colorful, musical books

My daughter loves this series of books and there aren't any other books out there to heighten her jazz appreciation. The books are very colorful, fun to read and include a fun CD. My daughter and I love these books and highly recommend them. This one in particular offers a look into many different animals that aren't represented in other books. Fun, little story to boot.