Get Set! Piano Christmas Crackers contains over 30 carols for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and quizzes to support musical development from the very first lessons to Grade 2.

Full of festive favourites such as Jingle bells, Silent night and Deck the halls, with a few lesser known carols included for good measure, many of the pieces have simple but effective teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start. The book is illustrated throughout in the charming Get Set! style, and students are encouraged to decorate and colour in the drawings to reflect their progress.

Packed with fantastic, tried-and-tested arrangements and a variety of fun activities to reinforce learning, this is the ultimate beginner piano Christmas book!

Expertly put together by award-winning authors, pieces include:
* Good King Wenceslas
* Jolly old Saint Nicholas
* O come, all ye faithful
* Up on the housetop
* Jingle, bells
* Away in a manger
* Infant holy, Infant lowly
* Under Bethl'hem's star so bright
* The holly and the ivy
* The first Nowell
* O little town of Bethlehem
* We wish you a Merry Christmas
* Once in royal David's city
* Hark! the herald angels sing
* Silent night
* Deck the hall
* The Virgin Mary had a baby boy
* Ding dong! merrily on high
* God rest you merry, gentlemen
* Huron carol
* Patapan
* Gabriel's message
* Cantemos a Maria
* While shepherds watched their flocks
* Mary rocked her baby!
* I saw three ships
* Y Gelynnen (The holly)
* We three kings of Orient are
* Go, tell it on the mountain

This book is part of a book series called Get Set Piano .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-13 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons. ), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger. In 2017 Kathy and David Blackwell received two awards: from ESTA UK in recognition of their exceptional services to string teaching, and from the Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership for significant contribution to music education in Oxfordshire and beyond. Karen Marshall is a practising private and peripatetic teacher in York with students from five to seventy-one years of age. Karen specialises in multi-sensory music teaching and is a Kodaly practitioner. A member of the British Dyslexia Association's music committee, Karen has trained teachers across the UK on teaching students with Special Educational needs. She writes for Music Teacher Magazine, was a piano and pedagogue student of the late Christine Brown and works voluntarily to support music education at her local Primary and Secondary school.