Minni's Favorite Books - For Music Makers 🎶
Our favorite books inspired by musical masters!
Inspired by one of our newest summer program themes, Music Makers, this month we wanted to share our favorite books that share the love of music!
Minni Summer Program offers ten individually themed weeks of summer programming for little artists ages 4–10, running until August 30.
While these are the last few weeks of summer, you can still sign up for our summer program! Each week is a different theme with rotating lessons, novel content and vocabulary. We also schedule field trips to select local galleries, businesses and studios, and offer outdoor art-making when the weather permits.
Interested in signing up? Check out our full schedule here.
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule - until the drum dream girl. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
In this stirring picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes-big or small-in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.
Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
Embark upon a story about art, persistence, and a family of frogs living in a mushroom. When Pokko takes the drum deep into the forest it is so quiet, so very quiet that Pokko decides to play. And before she knows it she is joined by a band of animals - first the raccoon, then the rabbit, then the wolf - and soon the entire forest is following her.
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count, and will give them every reason to get up and dance! In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage.
