Allegro: A Musical Journey Through 11 Musical Masterpieces

My 19-month grandson loves this musical book, as do all the adults in his life. The illustrations are beautiful and the engaging story shows how music creates an emotional connection and is able to transport one to magical lands. This book chooses the perfect classical music to demonstrate how just by listening to music, one can feel a wide array of emotions, such as happy, sad, wistful, or adventurous. The young boy in the story feels transported to a beautiful meadow, a pirate ship, a jungle, and many more places when he realizes that the notes on a page can touch one's imagination, heart and soul. With so many toys out there with annoying music that frustratingly gets stuck in your head, this book is a welcome relief while helping to hopefully instill a lifelong love of classical music. I highly recommend this book for children and adults alike.

This book is well made high quality paper and graphics the child pushes a button and hears a music theme it is a great way to introduce a Todler to great music. You will not be dissapointed if you purchase

Magical and enchanting, Allegro (published by Familius) is one of my new-favorite picture books. This classy, padded-cover book is beautifully illustrated and so engaging! When a young piano student, named Allegro, gets frustrated while practicing his latest music piece, he crumples it into a tiny ball and throws it onto the dark wood floor. He stares, wide-eyed, as that tiny ball against the dark background appears like a dot that multiplies and grows lines, becoming like notes on a musical staff. And soon he’s transported by enchanting melodies into various musical moods—with stunning illustrations to capture each feeling.A sound panel beside the book pages encourages children to match buttons with corresponding illustrations, allowing children to hear brief examples—from the stirring “March of the Toy Soldiers” (Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker) to the sad feel of Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni) to the triumphant, celebratory “Ode to Joy” (Beethoven)—and Allegro “feels” it all. At last he’s back home, motivated to keep practicing, leading to a delightful ending.With end papers featuring “Meet the Composer” cameos and brief descriptions, this book is a wonderful introduction for youngsters to the many moods and well-recognized melodies of classical music that has delighted listeners for centuries. Highly recommended reading for preschool and elementary classrooms as well as personal reading between little ones and their favorite big people.Bravo, Allegro!#Familius #classical music picture books

I liked that it was very easy to play the music. I bought this for my grandson who is 5 years old and enjoys music and singing along with it, even when there are no words, he'll make up his own.

My two boys love this book. It is beautiful and the sound quality is decent for what it is. It's nice that they can look at it and play the music to go with each page on their own rather than relying on us to always read it to them. A wonderful way to introduce young children to classical music!!!! (And the kids like this one a lot more than the "Welcome to the Symphony" book by the same group.)

I purchased one for each grandchild to introduce them to the classics. Good quality and a beautiful book for now and a lovely reference as they mature. As a classical musician myself, I highly recommend.

My three year old likes the music and that he can choose it by pressing the buttons. For me, music selection is good , pictures are beautiful, overall book quality is good, but the story that goes with it could have been better.

My kids (3 and 4) LOVE Allegro. They hear classical music anywhere and say, "this is in my Allegro book!" I love that the book actually includes a good length of the music and I especially love that it introduces and creates an opportunity to talk about how music evokes different emotions. We say, how does this one sound? Sad, excited, joyful, soothing. I'm also a ballet teacher and use the same idea asking, can you match your movement to the feeling of the music? Which is easy to do in your living room (make it freeze dance too!)

I really loved the story and how the writer used the music.Highly recommended

My 2 year old daughter loves it

Só as ilustrações não prendem a atenção de uma criança por muito tempo. Poderia ser melhor trabalhado

This book is so pretty and the music also wonderful

The good:my child loves classical music, so he liked this book a lot.The bad:- the music panel seems to fragile covered with a thin paper.- When I got the book it wasn't working, so I had to open it and move the batteries, then it worked.- It already had the first change of batteries.- The text on each page is not interesting, instead the info about the piece and the composer is on the first and last page.- The names of the pieces are written in such tiny letters on the music panel. Hard to read.- it is a huge book compared to other musical books.For me it would be two stars, but my son likes it very much, so four stars