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Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!

10 best books like Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music! (Robert Levine): Maps and Globes, The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry, The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, Uncovering the Logic of English, Rainforest, The Lewis & Clark Expedition, A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say: Finding the Words to Fit Any Situation, Find the Constellations, The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History

Maps and Globes
AuthorJack Knowlton
ISBN0064460495
This comprehensive look at geography and the environment, Maps and Globes, can take you anywhere—to the top of the tallest mountain on earth or the bottom of the deepest ocean. Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your...
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
AuthorKarla Kuskin
"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people...
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry
AuthorMichael Driscoll
ISBN1579122825
This is a nice hardback book with an extremely diverse selection of poetry. Along with the explanations of the different forms of poetry; you will find little biographies of some famous Poets, and an accompanying CD of poetry that is read aloud.

Some forms of poetry you will find include; Nursery...
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
AuthorKingfisher Publications
ISBN0753457849
This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and South that unified America, the...
Uncovering the Logic of English
AuthorDenise Eide
ISBN1936706008
Multiple award-winning book on reading and spelling education that will transform how you think about English! Discover the method that Dr. Temple Grandin called "really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."

For the past 70 years students...
Rainforest
AuthorThomas Marent
ISBN0756619408
Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life to capturing images of rainforest life, tells the story of his journey through these spectacular photographs. Join him as he travels across five continents for an up-close view of the astonishing variety and fascinating behavior...
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
AuthorRichard L. Neuberger
Did you know that Clark wanted to name a river after his childhood sweetheart? Romantic, right? Except that he got her name wrong! Uh oops! Haha! Learn other interesting facts and all the history associated with this expedition.

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"Each is a book that brings to life a...
A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say: Finding the Words to Fit Any Situation
AuthorPatti Kelley Criswell
ISBN1593697724
A friend talks about you behind your back. What do you say to her? You want to watch a TV show that's on past your bedtime. How do you ask your parents? You break your friend's favorite CD. How do you apologize? In American Girl's latest Smart Girl's Guide, you'll learn the exact words to say in these situations,...
Find the Constellations
AuthorH.A. Rey
ISBN0395244188
Containing star charts, a guide to the constellations, and details about seasons and the movement of the objects we see in the sky, this classic book makes H. A. Rey’s passion for astronomy evident on every page.
Second edition updates concentrate on the planetary and solar system information...
The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History
AuthorJane Bingham
ISBN0746041683
See my review on amazon for a complete table of contents.

I love the Usborne series of encyclopedias and other books, and was really excited to add this to our home's repertoire.

While there is not a lot of depth on some areas/topics (Ancient China and Japan, for instance), there is certainly...
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?
AuthorRobert E. Wells
ISBN0807588377
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. This is the third book we've read by Robert E. Wells and I am in love with his books. He has this wonderful way of taking complex science and mathematics concepts and making them accessible to preschoolers and young children. My son has also...
The Great Little Madison
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116216
In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government,...
Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: With a Fully-Orchestrated and Narrated CD
AuthorSergei Prokofiev
ISBN0375824308
Written in 1936, Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale for narrator and orchestra has enchanted generations of children. This inviting picture book introduces a new generation of youngsters to the exciting story of the hungry wolf, the ill-fated duck, the fortunate cat, the fearless little bird,...
Peter the Great
AuthorDiane Stanley
A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much...
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
AuthorMaryAnn F. Kohl
ISBN0935607099
Don’t be fooled: Yes, Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters is aimed at elementary-school art teachers, but so many of the lessons are adaptable to high school art classes or even humanities classes. MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga has packed this slim...
The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms
AuthorClare Walker Leslie
ISBN9781603425
Ever since Richard Louv diagnosed nature-deficit disorder in his classic book Last Child in the Woods, parents and teachers have been looking for more ways to connect children with the outdoors. Nationally recognized naturalist and artist Clare Walker Leslie has been igniting kids curiosity about...
The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
AuthorPatrick Kavanaugh
ISBN0310208068
Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all inspired by deep spiritual convictions. Peter Kavanaugh uncovers the spirituality of twenty of music's timeless giants, revealing legacies of the soul as...
This Is My Home, This Is My School
AuthorJonathan Bean
ISBN0374380201
Drawing from his own childhood experiences, Jonathan Bean takes the autobiographically inspired family he introduced in Building Our House through the special rhythms and routines of a homeschooling day. For young Jonathan and his sisters, Mom is the teacher and a whole lot more, and Dad is the best...
How Do Apples Grow?
AuthorBetsy Maestro
ISBN0064451178
As a mom, I love trying to pick out the perfect books to match my kids' interests. My four-year-old eats one to three apples each day, so I thought he might like this book.

The best part was when we learned how the blossom end of an apple still shows the remnants of its origins, and my son exclaimed,...
The Greek News
AuthorAnton Powell
ISBN0763603406
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
Life of Fred: Apples
AuthorStanley F. Schmidt
ISBN0979107245
Numbers that Add to 7, Circles, Ellipses, Reading 6:00 on a Clock, 5 + ? = 7, Days of the Week, Leap Years, Spelling February, Dressing for Cold Weather, 15 Degrees Below Zero (–15º), Deciduous Trees, Deciduous Teeth, Counting by Fives, 3x + 4x = 7x, Archimedes 287 B.C. Wrote The Sand Reckoner and Got...
American History Stories You Never Read in School but Should Have
AuthorMara L. Pratt
ISBN0964054604
This is the story of the American Revolution as you have never read it before. Volume One is a photo-reproduction of an original history book used in 1889 to teach our children the grandeur of the America vision. It was discovered at a used book sale in a quiet Midwestern Church on the banks of the Mississippi...
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
AuthorRobert Frost
ISBN0806906332
"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry....
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