violin

Fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, in 1897, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.

Presents a short study of the violin and other stringed instruments and discusses its origins and how it has evolved, as well as illustrated instructions, tips, and exercises to the basics of playing a violin.

A cumulative tale in which a tree that is home to a singing mockingbird continues to be a source of music after it is fashioned into a fiddle.

A young boy befriends an old violin maker who teaches him the beauty of music and friendship.

Photographs and text document the creation of a violin by master violinmaker John Larrimore.

Describes the violin, including it's parts and how it's played.

Colored forms suggest things the reader might see, stirred by the music played on a violin.

When a strange object falls off a truck passing through the jungle, a bored orangutan discovers that he can make wonderful sounds with it and in time his family and the other jungle animals come to appreciate music as well.

The village people would not heed a strange man's warning and gathered to listen to the fiddler's son as he filled the air with beautiful music.

A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.