Children create music in individually unique ways, but also using common processes. Each creating process component stated in the United States' National Music Standards (imagine, plan and make, evaluate and refine, and present; NCCAS, 2014) is explored in this text using children's creations from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as examples. What can the characteristics of music created by children from five diverse locations...

Demonstrates the use of musical intruments in pre-school and kindergarten classrooms. Presents ideas on how to incorporate musical instruments into a curriculum.

(Producer) The first CD, includes longtime kid's favorites is ideal for classroom sing-alongs or just plain listening. The second CD soothes weary and overexcited little minds and eases them into quiet time or even a serene slumber.

Future rock star, or friendless misfit? That's no choice at all. Apple Yengko moved from the Philippines to Louisiana when she was little, and now that she is in middle school, she grapples with being different, with friends and backstabbers, and with following her dreams. Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. Her mother still cooks Filipino foods, speaks a mix of English and Cebuano, and chastises Apple for becoming "too American."...

Jack is a music-loving kid whose favorite thing to do is visit his backyard clubhouse, where he makes music and sings with his friend Mary, his dog Mel, and all of his neighborhood friends.