In All of Your Days Have You Seen the Ways an Animal Plays an Instrument?

by Lisa Baker, Joy Baik (illustrator)

The 2023 International Book Awards has honored "In All of Your Days Have You Seen the Ways an Animal Plays an Instrument?" by Lisa Baker as Finalist in the category of Children's Novelty & Gift Book *First Place in the Arts/Music Category in the 2022 Purple Dragonfly Awards* Imagine animals playing instruments, described in a very rhythmic fashion. This fun-to-read book will help you learn about some animals or instruments you may have never heard of. The rhymes roll off your tongue as the rhythm of the melodic words tickle your ears. So, In All of Your Days Have You Seen the Ways an Animal Plays an Instrument? You will see many different animals in this book as you look for the hidden symbol on each two page spread. Enjoy the colorful art and pretend you can hear what songs the animals are playing.

42 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2023

Reviews

[C.J. Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book to Elvis, The Little Prince. If you don't know Elvis, you should check him out. He is my sweet little boy, an IVDD survivor, and has the affectionate name of Scoot because he scoots around the house since he was paralyzed from the waist down. He is my ride-or-die best friend and my writing, reading, and traveling partner.

I read children's books to Scoot, AKA Elvis, who loves our reading time. He looks lovingly into my eyes and tells me how he feels about these books.

Elvis couldn't stop staring at me as I read him the beautiful rhymes of this book. The animals were his favorite part; I could see his eyes light up as I listed them off. When he heard of the numerous instruments neither of us even knew existed, we were having such a great time because we had to go and check out what they sounded like.

Our favorite part was that a teacher wrote this, and she is such a kind soul because she even had a table of index in the back teaching us about the instruments, and we loved that so much.

Elvis wanted to eat the pages; the illustrations were adorable and vivid.

This is a must-read for every child. Immerse your children in music and watch their creativity spark. I can't say enough how much I loved this and had the pleasure of speaking with the author on my podcast, www.theauthorsporch.com. She is a bright light traveling around the world, and here is the best part, this book is #1 in a series, so you can enjoy more rhymes coming soon, but don't wait for those because she has more rhyming books for your little ones.

[Ann Göth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you want to encourage your kids’ imagination when creating games? Ideally games without technology and without many aids, just creative fun games with other kids? Then read them this book, which encourages such play and at the same time is so much fun to read. The rhymes are gorgeous and the illustrations very entertaining. My kid truly enjoyed this!

[Kelly Boggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first in the In All of Your Days Have You Seen the Ways series. It's full of bright colors and intersting animals who rhyme and show fun imagination. I love that at the end she has the reader going back to look for the little secret symbol.

[Chelsea Kong · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun rhyming story with animals

Have you ever seen animals that can play musical instruments and how they can play them? This book is a fun story that children will enjoy. It is easy to read and remember, and nice illustrations.