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What Charlie Heard.(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
by Mordicai Gerstein. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (19 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003), 2002. 37 pp., $17.
If you teach music lessons to children, enrich your own children with substantive but engaging reading material, or simply enjoy good children's books, treat yourself to a copy of What Charlie Heard, written and illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein.
This biography of Charles Ives is written as a story using vividly descriptive and easily accessible language for children perhaps as young as 3 through those of lower elementary school age.
The story presents salient experiences in Ives's life that influenced his music. His early years were filled with sounds, which ultimately found their way into his compositions. Page after page in this picture book presents those sounds written textually around the drawings, just begging children to vocally imitate the noisy environment. Ives's music also was profoundly affected by poignant people and events in his life--a creative and devoted father who directed a brass band, holiday parades, thunderstorms, his chosen career in the insurance business--all ...
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