Kennedy Vilt - Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes, Illustrated by Karmen Thompson.

Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes, educates the reader about the orchestra and the many parts that make it whole. Hayes’s text is valuable in that it names and describes each instrument in score order. Though the reader may not identify this strategy used by Hayes, the introduction of the concept of score order is valuable to the reader. Hayes also groups the instruments into “families.” Karmen Thompson’s illustrates are descriptive and educational. Matching the description of Hayes’s text, Thompson’s illustrations educate the reader about each instrument, which family they belong to, how they differ, and their place in score order. Meet the Orchestra is a great book to have in a music classroom and use as an aid for

teaching these valuable concepts to a beginning orchestra.