Valerie McLeish Bücher

The Oxford First Companion to Music is the first comprehensive music book for children under thirteen. Some of its special features are: * Content arranged by topic so that is can be read for interest as well as used for reference * "More about" boxes, referring to pages on related topics, to help with looking up facts * Numerous photographs and line drawings in full color, especially chosen to be informative rather than merely decorative * Over 50 short music examples, many easy enough to be picked out on a recorder or piano * Covers all kinds of music including music of the Far East and Africa as well as pop and jazz * Suggestions for music to listen to, a reminder that music is not just facts but an aural experience This is a book for all children who want to find out more about the music they enjoy through records, radio, television, or playing instruments.

This comprehensive guide to the mean streets of crime fiction takes you from Joan Aiken to P.B. Yuill, and suggests thousands of good reads in between. Includes locked-room mysteries; police procedurals; the art of crime; caper novels; great detectives; private eyes; the Mafia; courtroom stories and many more...