Young children can discover the magic of making music with the real xylophone attached to the front of this charming book. Using the high-quality xylophone and clear, simple instructions, they can learn to play a selection of well-known tunes, including Hey Diddle Diddle, Old MacDonald and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Delightful illustrations help to bring each tune to life. A perfect introduction to music-making for little children.

Our sheet music is not for a specific xylophone, but it is universal and suitable for most 8-25 note xylophones. This book is aimed at those new to music and musical instruments, whether child or adult. It allows for simple and easy learning that requires no previous knowledge of reading music. The letter notation makes it possible for you or your kids to confidently begin playing. Our other books make it easy to play the xylophone with colored circle/letter notation. This book, however, includes classic note symbols so that students can begin to learn the reading of musical notes, including a musical notation showing note length, connection, etc. Most songs in this sheet music book can be played within one octave on the xylophone using only 8 notes. Several songs need 1.5 or 2 octaves or a 10-15note xylophone. This percussion instrument develops not only a musical ear, but also gross and fine motor skills, and cognitive skills such as letter recognition, matching, and patterns. Attention: Songs have been transposed for a DIATONIC range. Some melodies might be changed and simplified. If you have flat keys on your instrument, please use the classic music score for the piano. List of songs adapted for xylophone: Part 1 Skip, Skip, Skip to My Lou Humpty Dumpty My Hat I like to Eat (Apples and Bananas) Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Lost My Gold Ring This Old Man Baby Bumble Bee The Bear Went Over the Mountain Cherry Blossom Ring Around the Rosie Rain, Rain, Go Away A Ram Sam Sam Little Jack Horner It's Raining Au Clair de la Lune Debka Hora My Bonnie House of the Rising Sun Part 2 Understand the importance of musical notation. 3 variants of the ancient French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. Baa Baa Black Sheep Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Alphabet Song.

"Learn to play simple, well-known tunes on the real xylophone attached to the book. Each note is represented with a different color, which corresponds to the same color on the xylophone, allowing even very young children to pick out the tunes. Tunes included in this book are: Hey Diddle Diddle, Old Macdonald Had a Farm, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Frere Jacques, Three Blind Mice, Row, Row, Row your Boat, The Grand Old Duke of York, London Bridge is Falling Down and Jingle Bells."

My First Book of Japanese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Japanese language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Japanese Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Japanese speech, to introduce core elements of Japanese culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages. Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Kanji (when applicable), Kana, and Romanized form (Romaji). With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the 125 million people worldwide that speak Japanese!

(Percussion). 25 delightful Disney tunes in arrangements for xylphone. Includes: Be Our Guest (from Beauty and the Beast ) * Cruella de Vil (from 101 Dalmatians ) * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (from Frozen ) * God Help the Outcasts (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) * I See the Light (from Tangled ) * Kiss the Girl (from The Little Mermaid ) * A Spoonful of Sugar (from Mary Poppins ) * A Whole New World (from Aladdin ) * You're Welcome (from Moana ) * and more.

Basic instruction including music theory, mallet fundamentals, plus many short exercises, songs, and quizzes.

"Little children can discover the fun of making music with the miniature keyboard and simple tunes in this enchanting book."--Back cover.