Allegro: A Musical Journey Through 11 Musical Masterpieces

While I’ll give you that the “Ode to Joy” is a bit rough on the ears, all the other songs are great audio and quality, giving our musically inclined toddler some fun while they match the picture buttons to the pages mama is reading. The illustrations are colorful and it’s fun to point out the instruments in an “I Spy” manner to keep baby engaged. Not a lot of words, but honestly the music is where it’s at. Highly recommend to get small sound bytes of classical music that baby can then request the whole song for dance time. Story is about perseverance despite having to practice-practice-practice, and while I don’t love the page where Allegro crumples up the sheet music and throws it, it does allow us to talk to our toddler and say why that’s bad behavior and how Allegro does turn around and correct that behavior. Recommend highly for getting baby into Grieg (multiple songs by him) and general classical music!

This is the best classical music book for kids! The music selections are beautiful and the illustrations are very cute.

Magical and enchanting, Allegro (published by Familius) is one of my new-favorite picture books. This classy, padded-cover book is beautifully illustrated and so engaging! When a young piano student, named Allegro, gets frustrated while practicing his latest music piece, he crumples it into a tiny ball and throws it onto the dark wood floor. He stares, wide-eyed, as that tiny ball against the dark background appears like a dot that multiplies and grows lines, becoming like notes on a musical staff. And soon he’s transported by enchanting melodies into various musical moods—with stunning illustrations to capture each feeling. A sound panel beside the book pages encourages children to match buttons with corresponding illustrations, allowing children to hear brief examples—from the stirring “March of the Toy Soldiers” (Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker) to the sad feel of Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni) to the triumphant, celebratory “Ode to Joy” (Beethoven)—and Allegro “feels” it all. At last he’s back home, motivated to keep practicing, leading to a delightful ending. With end papers featuring “Meet the Composer” cameos and brief descriptions, this book is a wonderful introduction for youngsters to the many moods and well-recognized melodies of classical music that has delighted listeners for centuries. Highly recommended reading for preschool and elementary classrooms as well as personal reading between little ones and their favorite big people. Bravo, Allegro! #Familius #classical music picture books

My 19-month grandson loves this musical book, as do all the adults in his life. The illustrations are beautiful and the engaging story shows how music creates an emotional connection and is able to transport one to magical lands. This book chooses the perfect classical music to demonstrate how just by listening to music, one can feel a wide array of emotions, such as happy, sad, wistful, or adventurous. The young boy in the story feels transported to a beautiful meadow, a pirate ship, a jungle, and many more places when he realizes that the notes on a page can touch one's imagination, heart and soul. With so many toys out there with annoying music that frustratingly gets stuck in your head, this book is a welcome relief while helping to hopefully instill a lifelong love of classical music. I highly recommend this book for children and adults alike.

This book is absolutely stunning! The illustrations are beautifully done and each page has an accompanying song. I have bought other musical books but love how this one plays a long snippet of music for each song rather than just a few notes. The story is simple yet heartfelt and is a favorite in our household for both the children and adults.

My two boys love this book. It is beautiful and the sound quality is decent for what it is. It's nice that they can look at it and play the music to go with each page on their own rather than relying on us to always read it to them. A wonderful way to introduce young children to classical music!!!! (And the kids like this one a lot more than the "Welcome to the Symphony" book by the same group.)

I love the music in this book-- a good variety, with quite long snippets of music (about 30 seconds-- much longer than other similar books). The buttons are easy for my toddler to press. My one complaint is that the text is slightly strange, and some of the font is extremely small and hard to read (by the music buttons). I never have trouble reading small text but this is a stretch in dim lighting for me, and my poor mother is tortured when her granddaughter wants her to read the composer or name of the music.

Bought this for a two year old boy who loves it!!!

Só as ilustrações não prendem a atenção de uma criança por muito tempo. Poderia ser melhor trabalhado

This book is so pretty and the music also wonderful

A great book! But wish each music plays a much longer time. I find now it’s too short a piece

The good: my child loves classical music, so he liked this book a lot. The bad: - the music panel seems to fragile covered with a thin paper. - When I got the book it wasn't working, so I had to open it and move the batteries, then it worked. - It already had the first change of batteries. - The text on each page is not interesting, instead the info about the piece and the composer is on the first and last page. - The names of the pieces are written in such tiny letters on the music panel. Hard to read. - it is a huge book compared to other musical books. For me it would be two stars, but my son likes it very much, so four stars

This book is encouraging music appreciation for my 3 year old. it’s also just beautifully illustrated.