The Carnival of the Animals (ebook)
Composer: Camille Saint--Saëns
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator: Mary Grandpré
Performers: various
Original language: English
Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers
EAN: 9780593377857
Price: € 6.99 (ebook)
Age: all ages
Jack Prelutsky, America’s first Children's Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals. Mary Grandpré, the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Such fun to read it to the kids on (Dutch) carnival.
A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner, head of the music department at the prestigious Rudolf Steiner School in New York City suggests ways preschoolers can act out the music—tromp like an elephant, hop like a kangaroo, glide like a swan—or, for older children, be creatively inspired by this joyful work. (Source: bol.com). Fun Idea!
3+stars for The Carnival Of The Animals, from the little listeners and their readers!