Kate DeMonica: "Percussion"

“Percussion” by Alyn Shipman is an informational book on what a percussion instrument is and how to make your own percussion instruments. It then goes into detail on the different types of percussion instruments. Specifically it goes into detail on the xylophone, vibraphone, drums, timpani, cymbals, drum set, and percussion from around the world. This book is filled with diagrams, photographs, and illustrations that relate with the vocabulary terms that are highlighted on each page. This book is useful in a music classroom because it does an excellent job organizing all of the percussion instruments into categories and comparing and contrasting them to reveal how they are all unique. The diagrams, photographs, and drawings all relate and make the many concepts in this book and make it easy for students to understand. I also really enjoy how after learning about all of the different areas of percussion, there is a section on how to make your own instrument and apply what was learned through music.