Book reviews from 4-7 years: Music and dance

The Two-By-Two Band by David Flavell and Alison Bartlett (OUP, ISBN 9780192727541)

Having just completed a geography-themed topic based around the story of Noah’s Ark, this book was a popular choice for the children in my Yellow Group. To keep the animals’ minds off their rumbling tummies, Mr Noah and his animals form a band. Their disorganised playing sounds dreadful – until a resourceful dove delivers a baton, in the shape of an olive branch…