Plank Road Publishing

Music: Camille Saint-Saens
Verses: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrations: Mary GrandPre
Format: Book with CD
Subject: Music Classroom Materials

America's first Children's Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saens'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 verses. A note to 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.

CD Contents:

• Introduction
• The Lion
• Rooster And Hens
• The Donkeys Of The Wild
• The Tortoise
• Elephants
• Kangaroos
• Aquarium
• Personages With Long Ears
• The Cuckoo
• Birds
• Pianists
• Fossils
• The Swan
• Finale