Catch the Beat with SEMLS SRP 2007

If you are collecting an arsenal of music-themed children's books for your storytime, perhaps this website can be of help? At Musickit.com the site provides an alphabetical listing of children's books that incorporates lyrics of popular music as text. You may have many of these pre 2000 copyrighted titles in your collection but just in case you don't, a March 14 Massyac email offered by Dallas librarian Rebecca Williams posts a small compilation of music-themed picture books, many printed within the last five years:

Asch, Frank - Barnyard Lullaby
Base, Graeme - Jungle Drums
Cox, Judy - My Family Plays Music
Emberley, Barbara - Drummer Hoff (Caldecott)
Falconer, Ian - Olivia forms a band
Harper, Wilhelmina - The Gunniwolf
Horowitz, David - Soon, Baboon, Soon
Hurd, Thacher - Mama Don't Allow
Johnson, Angela - Violet's Music
Krosoczka, Jarret J. - Punk Farm
Kuskin, Karla - The Philharmonic Gets Dressed Karla Kuskin.
Lionni, Leo - Geraldine the Music Mouse
Lithgow, John - The Remarkable Farkle McBride
London, Jonathan - Froggy Plays in the Band
McMullen, Kate - Rock-a-baby band
McPhail, David - Mole Music
Miko, Imai - Sebastian's Trumpet
Mills, Claudia - Gus and Grandpa and the piano lesson
Ziefert, Harriet - Animal Music

Adler, Naomi - Play Me a Story: Nine tales about musical instruments
Anholt, Catherine and Laurence - Chimp and Zee's Noisy Book
Bartlett, T.C. - Tuba Lessons
Blake, Quentin - All Join In
Brett, Jan - Berlioz the Bear
Cowan, Catherine - My Friend the Piano
Fowler, Susi - Fog
Garriel, Barbara - I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
Shannon, George - Lizard's Song
Gray, Libba Moore - When Uncle Took the Fiddle
Harrison, David - The Animals' Song
Kraus, Robert - Mort the Sport
Kraus, Robert - Musical Max
Mahy, Margaret - Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom
Mandy - Hattie's House
Munsch, Robert - Mortimer
Pinkney, Brian - Max Found two Sticks
Raschka, Chris - Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Sage, James - The Little Band
Seeger, Pete - Abiyoyo
Sharratt, Nick - Animal Orchestra
Waddell, Martin - The Happy Hedgehog Band
Webb, Steve - Tanka, Tanka, Skunk
Wells, Rosemary - Practice Makes Perfect
Wiggles - Hot Potato, Hot Potato (board book)
Williams, Vera - Something Special for Me
Wilson, Budge - A Fiddle for Angus

Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band by Art Flowers
Nurseryland King Cole's Castle by Colin Maclean
The First Music by Dylan Pritchett
Hands, Fingers.....Dr. Seuss
Orchestranimals by Vlasta Van Kampen
The Will Hillenbrand version of "Fiddle-I-Fee" features animals playing
different instruments, with appropriate sound effects.

If you have a picture book favorite that you would like to share, feel free to post here.