What's included:
Hardback book of the story by Virginia Lee Burton and a CD and Activity Guide with the story narrated to music.
- Stories in Music CD (3769) with "Music by Stephen Simon, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and narrated by Yadu.
These award-winning recordings in the style of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf add greatly to the material available to teachers and parents to encourage their children not only to read, but to listen and appreciate classical music. Imagination runs free when children use ears first.
In the CD guide are a few activities, a steam shovel with parts defined, the tune and lyrics for Mike's song, and information on author, composer, and other people involved.
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Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel Hardback (6257)
Story and pictures by Virginia Lee Burton. Will Mike and steam shovel MaryAnn be able to dig the town hall basement in one day! What child hasn't thrilled to the tension of these man and machine working their hearts out to meet the deadline and the little boy who saves the day! Uilleann bagpipes really catche the ear as Mike's theme. Then the quodlibet and musical quotations of familiar tunes remind us of other stories. After the story, we hear about the author and how she wrote her stories and we hear the composer tell us how he was thinking when he wrote the composition. Then we hear the story again.
