River Song: With the Banana Slug String Band

by Steve Van Zandt

Rivers make beautiful music - from the trickle of snowmelt to the burble of a full-flowing stream. Here the famed children’s musical ensemble, the Banana Slug String Band, celebrates rivers as a fascinating, ever-changing source of life and joy. The attached CD includes their vibrant rendition of "River Song."

Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[James Vickery]

This book is a good book about a river habitat with the engagement of a song for students readers. The book also comes with a CD that can be played for extra comprehension with students. This book would be great to introduce habitats in the second grade. The book also includes many animals that one might find in a river.

[Matthew]

This was a great piece of writing, great flow, educational, entertaining. Additionally, the illustrations were beautiful. Great for the water cycle and river ecology. Highly recommended.

[Arely Cortes]

This is about a river throughout the year. At first its frozen then goes through canyon walls and in the summer kids play on the shallow side and grandparents stick their feet in and parents relax near some orange lilies. At the end of the day deers come and drink water. Then the river keeps going till it enters the sea.

[Kelly Wickham]

This book tells the story through song about a river rolling through the forest and the beautiful animals and landscapes that it encounters as it flows. The pictures are gorgeous and the song is beautifully poetic, although the CD that went with the book has been lost.

"Blurp ah pa-shoosh rumbly pound
A white rapid river makes a wonderful sound"

[Jecel Cortes]

There's not much to say about the story. It mostly about how a river goes throw every were and were is starts and were it ends. I would read this to a little kid, but it still is a good book just not the best.

[Spencer]

2023

[Marcos Cortes]

It cone the Music.