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The Carnival of the Animals
A great way to introduce children to classical music.
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, and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the ve...more
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, and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the ve...more
Other Format, 40 pages
Published
August 24th 2010
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Oct 24, 2012
Nicole Hibbert
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Summary: Throughout this story we are taken on an adventure and introduced to several animals and given some fun information about them! We get to experience what is happening through fantastic pictures and fun rhymes!
Audience: This book is intended for elementary students who love to dance.
Appeal: This book fits well for students who love to dance and listen to music because the pictures and words are so fun. Once you put the CD in though the whole package is brought together.
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Audience: This book is intended for elementary students who love to dance.
Appeal: This book fits well for students who love to dance and listen to music because the pictures and words are so fun. Once you put the CD in though the whole package is brought together.
Implementation:...more
Dec 05, 2010
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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I had never listened to this classical piece until I read this book, which came with a CD. Jack Prelutsky wrote poems to accompany all the animals portrayed in Camille Saint-Saens' classical piece, "The Carnival of the Animals". On the CD he reads the poems followed by the music that describes each animal, and then the entire composition is played without the poems. The Carnival of the Animals is delightful on several levels. First, the clever, humorous poems by Prelutsky, my favorites of which...more
Welcome to our carnival,
Where birds and beasts and such
Behave a lot like people do,
At times a bit too much.
-Jack Prelutsky
This collection of poems by Jack Prelutsky is accompanied by a a musical CD. The Carnival of the Animals was composed by Camille Saint-Sans in 1886. It is a lovely combination of prose and classical music perfect for kindergarten through third grade students. I used this classical piece years ago when I worked with Ravinia and we had the children dress like the different an...more
Where birds and beasts and such
Behave a lot like people do,
At times a bit too much.
-Jack Prelutsky
This collection of poems by Jack Prelutsky is accompanied by a a musical CD. The Carnival of the Animals was composed by Camille Saint-Sans in 1886. It is a lovely combination of prose and classical music perfect for kindergarten through third grade students. I used this classical piece years ago when I worked with Ravinia and we had the children dress like the different an...more
Mary Lee Hahn reviewed Carnival of the Animals at a Year of Reading. She sold me with this: "this music and these poems together, make the music more fun to listen to and the poems more fun to hear and say. What a great way to introduce children to the sounds of language along with the sounds of the orchestra."
In 1886, Saint-Saëns composed The Carnival of the Animals. Fast forward 124 years. Jack Prelutsky has added poems and Mary GrandPré has added illustrations to create this lovely tribute to Saint-Saëns' original composition. Complete with audio CD, it is a worthy tribute.
What I thought: I'll be honest. I've listened to classical music a lot, but I've never heard of Camille Saint-Saëns or his The Carnival of the Animals. I bough the collection because Prelutsky wrote the poetry. The poems are gre...more
What I thought: I'll be honest. I've listened to classical music a lot, but I've never heard of Camille Saint-Saëns or his The Carnival of the Animals. I bough the collection because Prelutsky wrote the poetry. The poems are gre...more
This is a delightful book full of animal poems set to the music of Camille Saint-Seans’s “The Carnival of the Animals” composed in 1886. Children are introduced to classical music in a fun way and can enjoy acting out the different animal roles in each of Jack Prelutsky’s poems.
Dec 13, 2010
Marcie
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The Note to Parents and Teachers at the back says it all about how this book will make this music all the more accessable to children. I love the Jack Prelutsky verses and the Mary GrandPre illustrations. This book is not just for music teachers, but every music teacher should have it.
May 31, 2011
NancyJo Lambert
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This is a neat book to add to the collection. I think this will be a great one to recommend to teachers when they are looking for animal books because the classical music and the poetry are a neat combination.
Aug 22, 2011
Bdalton
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A charming book of poems with a CD in back. The book includes information about how to connect literature and music. The CD with music and poetry reading adds to the enjoyment of the poems and the music.
Sep 23, 2010
Donalyn
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Hits-- Mary GrandPre's fanciful illustrations, the accompanying CD, sophisticated vocabulary. Miss-- random poems like "Pianists" and "Fossils" don't seem to match the theme.
Exquisite book in all respects. Beautiful poems, glorious illustrations and heavenly music.
I loved how this book brought together the music, the poetry, and the beautiful illustrations!
Jack Prelutsky has written verses to go with the music "Carnival of the Animals." A fun way to introduce classical music to children.
This is a book of poetry and music. I would help students to connect literature and music. It has beautiful and colorful illustration of all types of animals. I would like to use this book for science and literature lesson plan. Grade: K-3.
This is a GREAT book! Beautiful artwork, excellent poems and music too. Would make a very nice gift!
Accompanied by CD of music & verses. Music is good, but the reading is pretty dull.
Dec 12, 2012
Harold Goldstein
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Jack Prelutsky is an American poet. He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. Prelutsky, who has also worked as a busboy, furniture mover, folk singer, and cab driver, claims that he hated poetry in grade school because of the way it was taught. He is the author of more than 30 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your...more
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