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Three Singing Pigs: Making Music with Traditional Stories


The Threes

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No. of pages 64

Published: 2004

Great for age 5-11 years

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Three Singing Pigs has a bright new cover! This baker's dozen of traditional tales retold by the wonderful Kaye Umansky is a much-loved resource of musical fun through stories. Interweaving the stories are songs with familiar melodies and specially rewritten words which carry the action along. Instantly performable pieces of classroom magic. The music activities which accompany each story will be familiar in concept to everyone who uses Music Express.

 

 

This book features in the following series: A And C Black Musicals, The Threes .

There are 64 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Kaye Umansky is very well known for her PONGWIFFY stories (Puffin) and other Sheena Roberts started compiling baby songs to sing with her own young children. Like many parents she needed a reminder of the songs her own parents had sung to her. Sheena is a children's song writer and editor, specialising in educational music. Dr. Michael Evans writes a health column for Canada's "Globe and Mail" and is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and a staff physician at Toronto Western Hospital.

 

This book is in the following series:

The Threes

A and C Black Musicals

There are excellent KS1 activities for adding drama and percussion to traditional stories to be found in Three Singing Pigs and Three Tapping Teddies.'