Music, Music For Everyone is about a group of friends who all play instruments. Rosa’s grandmother is sick and cannot go downstairs any longer. She comes up with the idea to form a band and play for money. She plans to use the money to help take care of her grandmother. The Oak Street Band plays their first gig at a wedding and each member gets paid. While reading this story, I though about the street performers I see in the French Quarter of New Orleans. These children may also be trying to earn money to help their own families. I liked this story because music has a way of bonding people together even if it is just for one song. ( )

A girl cares for a sick Grandma. Ages 7-9. Pierce CC library.

After reading this book, I had some mixed feelings about the book after reading it. I liked the book because of the authors writing, it flows nicely. At the beginning of the story, the book talks about a young child and her grandmother. Her grandmother is sick and she is taking care of her and plays music for her with her accordion. Toward the middle of the story, the young girl and her friends talk about the jar that used to have a lot of money in it. Money in the jar went to buying the grandmother a chair and then the young girl an accordion. Her and her friends started playing instruments together and find out that the grandmother used to play and get money for it. At the end of the story, the children play all the instruments at a fiftieth anniversary party and they end up getting money for it. The young girl in the story, puts her money in the jar. The story flows nicely in the book. But I didn’t like the book because even though the story flows nicely, it is confusing a bit because the book starts with the chair, to the grandmother, to the accordion and back to the chair. I feel like it skips around a little so I feel like children may get a bit confused on what is going on in the story. Even though the book jumps around, it has a good message to it. The message is that we should help take care of our family. The mother used the money in the jar to buy the grandmother a chair and the girl an accordion. At the end of the story, the girl puts the money that she earned in the jar to help start filling up the jar again. The little girl is helping fill up the jar just like the mother helped use the money to take care of her mother. ( )

Its about a little girl who tries to play music to earn money for her grandmothers illness.

The book is about a group of kids that like to play instruments to one of the child's grandmother, and eventually to everyone else
Ages 4-7
Pierce College Library