Growing bookworms – Audio books that teach children about music

Today’s Growing Bookworms post discusses audio books that teach children about music. Thank you to Kaye Lynne Booth for hosting me.

Writing to be Read

Peter and the Wolf

Picture credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf

When I was a little girl in the pre-preparatory school, one of my favourite music lessons was when our teacher played the audio book of Peter and the Wolf. I loved the story about Peter who needed to protect his pets from a hungry wolf. Most of all, I loved the sounds of the musical instruments that accompanied the story. Each character in the story has its own musical instrument and each sound is perfectly suited to the character. Our teacher used this story to teach us about the different musical instruments, which family of instrument it belonged to, and the sound it made.

Peter is played by the violin (string instrument family), the bird is played by the flute (woodwind family), the duck is played by the oboe (woodwind family), the cat is played by the clarinet (woodwind family), the grandfather is…

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Robbie and Michael Cheadle are co-authors of the Sir Chocolate series of books. We both like to write and bake.

28 thoughts on “Growing bookworms – Audio books that teach children about music”

  5. When I was at junior school, there were no audiobooks. But one teacher would bring in a portable record player and we also read the story of Peter and The Wolf whilst listening to the music. In the 1950s, that was really enchanting.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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