88 Instruments
Author: Chris Barton
Illustrator: Louis Thomas
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 3 to 7
Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Author: Susan Hood
Illustrator: Sally Wern Compost
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 8
Ah, Music!
Author: Aliki
Illustrator: Aliki
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: 4 to 8
Before John was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator: Sean Qualls
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Age Range: 5 to 9
Ben’s Trumpet
Author: Rachel Isadora
Illustrator: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 4 to 8
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Author: Chris Raschka
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Publisher: Scholastic
Age Range: 4 to 8
Drum Girl Dream: How One’s Girl’s Courage Changed Music
Author: Margarita Engle
Illustrator: Rafael Lopez
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Age Range: 4 to 7
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrator: Brian Pinkney
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Age Range: 5 to 9
Hey Charleston! The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
Author: Anne Rockwell
Illustrator: Colin Bootman
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Age Range: 7 to 11
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
Author: Barbara Garriel
Illustrator: John O’ Brien
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Age Range: 5 to 8
I Like the Music
Author: Leah Komaiko
Illustrator: Barbara Westman
Publisher: Harper & Row
Age Range: 4 to 8
If I Only had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
Author: Roxane Orgill
Illustrator: Leonard Jenkins
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9
Listen to my Trumpet (An Elephant & Piggie Book)
Author: Mo Willems
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Age Range: 4 to 8
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
Author: Katheryn Russell-Brown
Illustrator: Frank Morrison
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 10
Lulu’s Piano Lesson
Author: Arlene Alda
Illustrator: Lisa Desimini
Publisher: Tundra Books
Age Range: 4 to 6
M is for Music
Author: Kathleen Krull
Illustrator: Stacy Innerst
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 7
Maisy’s Band (Maisy Pop-Up and Play-Book)
Author: Lucy Cousins
Illustrator: Lucy Cousins
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 3 to 7
Mole Music
Author: David McPhail
Illustrator: David McPhail
Publisher: Square Fish
Age Range: 4 to 8
Music Class Today!
Author: David Weinstone
Illustrator: Vin Vogel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Age Range: 3 to 6
My Family Plays Music
Author: Judy Cox
Illustrator: Elbrite Brown
Publisher: Holiday House
Age Range: 4 to 8
Play, Louis, Play! The True Story of a Boy and His Horn
Author: Muriel Harris Weinstein
Illustrator: Frank Morrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Age Range: 7 to 10
Scott Gustafson’s Animal Orchestra: A Counting Book
Author: Scott Gustafson
Illustrator: Scott Gustafson
Publisher: The Greenwich Workshop Press
Age Range: 2 to 5
Sweetheart of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Publisher: Dial Books
Age Range: 10+
The Bear and the Piano
Author: David Litchfield
Illustrator: David Litchfield
Publisher: Clarion
Age Range: 4 to 8
The Man with the Violin
Author: Kathy Stinson, with a postscript by Joshua Bell
Illustrator: Dusan Petricic
Publisher: Annick Press
Age Range: 5 to 8
The Orchestra Pit
Author: Johanna Wright
Illustrator: Johanna Wright
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Age Range: 2 to 6
This Jazz Man
Author: Karen Ehrhardt
Illustrator: R.G. Roth
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 7
Trombone Shorty
Author: Troy Andrews
Illustrator: Bryan Collier
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Age Range: 4 to 8
Violet’s Music
Author: Angela Johnson
Illustrator: Laura Huliska-Beith
Publisher: Dial Books
Age Range: 4 to 8
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Author: Lloyd Moss
Illustrator: Marjorie Priceman
Publisher: Aladdin
Age Range: 4 to 8
