For those teachers with little or no music background and seasoned professionals who just don't have time to gather lesson plans, the This Is Music! series is exactly what they need to teach music in a classroom setting! Incredibly easy to use; Eight lessons in each book; Reproducible pages make easy take-home assignments; No singing ability required - all music is on the CDs!

Hey diddle diddle, you all know the riddle, a cow jumps over the moon... But the moon is very high in the sky. How many attempts will it take before Cow makes her famous highflying leap?

Vail's picture book debut delivers a twist to the favorite nursery rhyme, as the cow takes center stage in a production of the rhyme. A New York Times Book Review Best Picture Book of the Year and a Publisher's Weekly The Year's Best Books. Full-color illustrations.

This expanded version of the traditional rhyme shows what happened after the cow jumped over the moon.Includes music on the last page.

Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity. Milnes explores the legacies of the state's best-known performers and musical families. He discusses religious music, balladeering, the influence of black musicians and styles, dancing, banjo and dulcimer traditions, and the importance of old-time music as a cultural pillar of West Virginia life. A musician himself, Milnes has been collecting songs and stories in West Virginia for more than twenty-five years. The result is an enjoyable book filled with anecdotes, local history, and keen observations about musical lives.

When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

The horse seriously doubts that the cow will ever be able to jump over the Moon but offers respect and admiration when the determined bovine accomplishes that feat.