We agree with Lloyd Moss: “It’s music that we all adore.” At Kindermusik International, we love music for music’s sake and for its ability to touch the hearts, souls, and minds of young children and families. Music can supportearly language development, increase phonemic awareness, and even profoundly impact children with special needs.
So make a resolution to gather your children together—whether at home or in the classroom—for musical story times that will support early literacy development and their love of music! Below you will find some of our favorite musical stories, including a Caldecott Winner, Reading Rainbow selections, audio story, and even a book written by a Kindermusik educator.
12 musical books to support early literacy and language development
- Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! By Wynton Marsalis
- Listen to My Trumpet by Mo Willems
- The Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter
- In the Fiddle Is a Song by Durga Bernhard
- Tuba Lessons by T.C. Bartlett and Monique Felix
- Hand, Hand Fingers Thumb by Al Perkins
- Bearful Bear and His New Moves by Anna Lee Everhart
- Freddy Flamingo and the Kindertown Five by Kindermusik (Story download)
- Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss (The Reading Rainbow video with Gregory Hines includes a good introduction to the orchestra with children explaining musical terms.)
- I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara Garriel
- Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney
- Violet’s Music by Angela Johnson
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