cover image I Love Classical Music

I Love Classical Music

Marion Billet. Scholastic, $9.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-338-26721-1

This cheerful board book, an addition to the My First Sound series, includes sound buttons that, when pressed, play classical music themes. Billet’s six scenes show friendly cartoon animals: bees, butterflies, and ladybugs flutter to the tune of “Spring” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons; a happy green trout leaps in pursuit of a retreating dragonfly as Schubert’s Trout Quintet plays; and two mice perform Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Mirlitons” from The Nutcracker. A gentle classical music primer sized for little hands. Ages up to 3[em]. (Mar.) [/em]