Instruments begin to join on the stage and warm up for the concert. Read moreįirst a trombone plays its silken tone, then a trumpet stings a note. A solo act, a duo act, a trio - from one to ten students can create visually a collage that represents each number of participants. Using the number vocabulary terms in the book, students could create a collage that display the various different groups recognized by number in the book. Students could use hand-held instruments to participate as the book is read, or create their own instruments for a classroom orchestra. This book would be great for a transition from reading (quiet time) to creative exercise. The funny way the words are typed on the pages provide an additional movement that mimics the rhymes created by the sounds the words make when read. This book introduces new vocabulary words, and highlights different musical instruments in an interesting and rhyming story.Personal Reaction:I truly enjoyed this book! The illustrations are bright and fun to look at over and over again. The illustrations dance across each double-page spread, flowing one directly into the next.

Summary:A lovely and bright picture book with flowing words that wave across each page introducing a new instrument, and a new word number until the orchestra is complete at ten. All in all, a book I would recommend to young music lovers, or to anyone looking for good read-aloud titles. The gouache illustrations by Marjorie Priceman are full of fun, with a sense of movement that perfectly complements the joie de vivre of the text, and are well deserving of the Caldecott Honor that they received. The rhyming text bowls along, communicating the tone and feeling of each of the instruments - the 'mellow' cello, the 'darkly slick' clarinet - while also keeping the rhythm joyfully alive.A celebration of music that also functions as a counting book (the soloist becomes a duo, the duo a trio, and so on), Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin is an entertaining little tale that would make an ideal read-aloud selection for story-hour. Lloyd Moss, who worked for New York's classical music station, WQXR, for fifty-three years, turned to the world of children's literature in 1995, publishing this debut picture-book about an ever-expanding group of musicians who chime in, one by one, until a full orchestra is in swing! Beginning with a single trombone, Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin builds momentum and excitement, as each new player joins the group.

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss