Scholastic Storybook Treasures – The Young Artists Collection

Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs bring the best books for children to life with narration, illustration, and music. One collection we’ve recently reviewed is Scholastic Storybook Treasures’ Young Artists Collection featuring the best-selling story Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin. The 3-disc collection features animated adaptations from 17 award-winning and beloved books, narrated by celebrities such as Zach Braff, James Earl Jones, Mary Beth Hurt and a singing performance from Aretha Franklin.

From the musical masterpiece Zin! Zin! ZIn! A Violin to Shrinking Violet, the tale of overcoming stage fright  and the outstandingly original The Dot, kids and parents will be entertained and inspired to tap into their inner artist!  The stories in this collection support lessons on creativity, self-confidence, and art appreciation.

The three DVDs in this collection contain the following Scholastic stories:

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin…and more stories for young musicians
Includes:
Musical Max
The Star-Spangled Banner
Keeping House
Patrick
Apt. 3

The Dot…and more stories for young artists
Includes:
Art
Ish
Norman the Doorman
Wallace’s Lists

Shrinking Violet…and more stories for young performers
Includes:
Three Cheers for Catherine the Great
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Amazing Grace

BONUS FEATURES Interview with Art Author/Illustrator Patrick McDonnell; Spanish Version of The Dot, Ish, and Amazing Grace; Read-Along feature.

Ryan plays the violin and Nathan plays the clarinet, and we’ve taken Kaitlyn to several Orchestra and Band concerts, so she was already somewhat familiar with musical instruments. But with Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin, she’s learning not just the names of instruments, but words that describe the sounds they make, and how instruments can combine into duets, trios, quartets, and more.  This story does such an amazing job of introducing children to all of that.

In an orchestral hall, two cats and a mouse sit on an empty stage. Then, a single trombone enters, “With mournful moan and silken tone”. He’s followed by a trumpet who in turn is followed by a French horn, a cello, a violin, a flute, a clarinet, an oboe, a bassoon, and (finally) a harp. With everyone in place, and the conductor stationed before them, everyone plays together in perfect harmony. Words like moan, tone, oiled, and coiled describe the shapes and sounds,  and there’s even counting included in the text, like ”Two, now three-o, what a trio!”  All of the stories in this collection are fantastic, but I have a soft spot for the title story

Scholastic Storybook Treasures – The Young Artists Collection is priced at $24.95. Visit http://www.newkideo.com to purchase this and other Scholastic Storybook Treasures collections.

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