| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers by Mike Venezia RECOMMENDED AGES: 4-8 Years |
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List Price: Our Price: $15.40 You Save: $6.60 (20%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardback - 32 pages (October 1995) Children's Press; ISBN: 0516045415 Dimensions (in inches)): 0.38 x 9.83 x 8.30 Read more about this title... |
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| Music Blocks Mozart Set by Neurosmith RECOMMENDED AGES: 2 Years and Up |
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Our Price: $69.99 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. A sturdy, radio-like box; five colorful, sensor-controlled blocks; and one of several memory cartridges are included in the Music Blocks Mozart Set. Together, they create a unique learning product for infants and toddlers that has earned several coveted toy awards. The objectives of this developmental toy are simple: to introduce babies to classical music, and to challenge them in identifying sounds and instruments. Before children can even identify the instruments represented by the blocks' symbols (woodwinds, violins, a xylophone, trumpets, human voices, and a percussion ensemble), they will be able to identify sounds and famous refrains by Mozart, such as "Night Music," which is included in this set. Each block activates a segment of the composition, and switching around the blocks creates a new song. The quality of the sound is impressive. It's stereophonic, rather than synthetic, though it's all created digitally. And, with that said, it's loud. Even at its lowest setting, the sound projects into the next room quite clearly. Included in the box is Music and Your Child's Mind, an informative sourcebook for parents interested in exploring classical music with their developing children. --Diane Beall Read more about this title... |
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| Baby Mozart: VHS Tape Starring Baby Einstein, Julie Aigner-Clark RECOMMENDED AGES: 4-8 Years |
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List Price: Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.00 (6%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. It's called "the Mozart Effect," the notion that exposing youngsters to the melodies of the maestro can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity, and memory. It's a pretty big leap of faith to understand that effect unless you personally see a toddler react to the stimulation. The Baby Einstein folks have a series of tapes (Baby Einstein, Baby Bach) that add visual stimulation to the bouncy recordings (using vibraphone, Rhodes electric piano, and even a glockenspiel). The melodies are heard against colorful imagery of spinning tops, wave machines, soft baby toys, mobiles, and the like. Several parenting groups and magazines have heralded the tapes for children 1 to 36 months, but the Orwellian aspect of introducing babes in arms to the TV screen may cause many to just pick up the CD. --Doug Thomas Read more about this title... |
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