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Sound All Around! January 2024
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Sound : shhh ... bang ... pop ... boom!!
by Romana Romanyshyn
This title illuminates the sense of sound as an auditory response to vibration, while rich infographics encourage readers to experience sound from a more informed and mindful perspective.
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Cicada symphony
by Sue Fliess
There are about three thousand different kinds of cicadas but only the males make the sound we know. Some cicadas appear every year but other kinds only show up every seventeen years, but no one knows why. And there can be trillions of them! Interesting facts and a rhythmic, rhyming verse combine with colorful illustrations to portray one of the most fascinating insects in the world.
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I heard a sound
by David J. Ward
An introduction to the science of sound offers a variety of kid-friendly experiments and examples designed to help children make scientific discoveries by listening to the sounds of nature and using everyday materials to learn about vocal chords, sound waves and more.
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The science of song: how and why we make music
by Alan Cross
This fascinating, fully illustrated resource explores the science and history behind our connection to music, revealing how music and the ways we experience it have transformed over the years.
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Sound and Light
by David Glover
Keen scientists can discover why thunder and lightning occur, how vibrations are made, and who can see in the dark. After learning the essential key facts, children can find almost everything they need for the corresponding experiments around the home.
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Make music!: a kid's guide to creating rhythm, playing with sound, and conducting and composing music
by Norma Jean Haynes
Make Music! invites kids and families to celebrate the joy of sound with a variety of inventive activities. Kids explore rhythm with clapping, body drumming, and intonations. They learn to create found sound with kitchen pots and pans, the Sunday paper, or even the Velcro on their sneakers. This title also includes step-by-step instructions that show how to make 35 different instruments, from chimes and bucket drums to a comb kazoo and a milk carton guitar.
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Call of the sound dragon
by Tracey West
Hoping to stop a duel between wizards that is threatening the city of Remus, new Dragon Master Tessa and her Sound Dragon, Sono, team up with Drake, Petra and Griffith in the hope of finding a special Power Crystal.
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Esquivel!: space-age sound artist
by Susan Wood
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music, popular in the fifties and sixties, has found a new generation of listeners
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The lonely heart of Maybelle Lane
by Kate O'Shaughnessy
Experiencing her world through the evocative sounds she collects, 11-year-old Maybelle becomes convinced that a new radio DJ is her absent father before entering a singing contest that the DJ will be judging in Nashville.
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Muffled
by Jennifer Gennari
When fifth-grader Amelia learns to cope with her noise sensitivity, she steps outside of her comfort zone and makes new friends.
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