Recommended Sheet Music,
Gifts for...Children (and grandchildren)
In our gift guide for children (and grandchildren), you'll find a selection of products perfect to give as gifts this Christmas. Including easy sheet music and beginner instruments for budding musicians, entertaining and informative books exploring the world of classical music, and fun musical games and toys to fill those stockings! Browse our gift selections for children below.
Sheet Music
Following on from her award-winning book The Complete Pianist, Penelope Roskell's latest series Essential Piano Technique is aimed at children in the early stages of learning the piano, helping them develop a strong foundation of healthy technique, and allowing rapid progression through the early stages of piano playing.
Find all books in the series here.
Available Format: Sheet Music
The latest volume in Hans-Günter Heumann's successful Best of Piano Classics series offers an attractive colourful mix of very easy to easy original piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods. In addition to popular repertoire pieces, it also includes discoveries that enrich modern teaching and auditions. The 100 short original pieces provide pure variety and motivation for beginners and those returning to the piano.
Available Format: Sheet Music
You'll love playing Hal Leonard's Disney Songs in Easy Keys! Each song is written in an easy key - never more than one sharp or one flat in the key signature. Melody, harmony, simple rhythms, helpful fingering, and lyrics are included. Your favourite Disney songs have never been easier!
Available Format: Sheet Music
Hal Leonard's Super Easy Songbooks are designed for beginning keyboard players so they can enjoy playing the songs they love! The arrangements have no page turns, simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, and basic left-hand chord diagrams. This Harry Styles collection features fifteen favourites from his first three solo albums.
Available Format: Sheet Music
If you've started learning to play the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides an accessible combination of chords, standard notation, and lyrics for 50 of the most memorable melodies that all guitarists should know!
Find more First 50 titles here.
Available Format: Sheet Music
Books for Children
Welcome to the Opera: Discover the Enchanting World of Opera with Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Carolyn Sloan | Workman Publishing
From the author of Welcome to the Symphony and Welcome to Jazz, this musical picture book introduces children to opera with twelve sound interactive buttons and an illustrated performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Available Format: Book
Children and adults can enjoy this timeless picture book as a traditional read-along, or can choose to listen to original musical compositions as they read, one for each animal, using a free interactive smartphone app which uses augmented reality to instantly play the appropriate song for each page when the camera of a mobile device is held over it.
Available Format: Book
What do a guitar, a harp, and a piano have in common? They are all strings! This first introduction begins with a simple explanation of what defines a string instrument. Young readers are then invited on a global exploration of a variety of different stringed instruments and are encouraged to find strings of their own in the world around them. Includes a bound-in string to strum, and a visual glossary.
Available Format: Book
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music
Asim & Polk | Running Press
Get ready to swing with A Child’s Introduction to Jazz, an interactive journey into one of the richest and most soulful music genres in the world. Listen while you learn with QR codes that will connect you to the instruments and musical flair of jazz. With a pull-out poster showing the different instruments of jazz, A Child’s Introduction to Jazz hits the perfect beat and will have you bebopping and scatting in no time!
Available Format: Book
Pull on your pointe shoes and follow our heroes as they explore beautiful scenes inspired by some of ballet's most loved music, including Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Spartacus, and The Firebird. Original illustrations capture the beautiful story of the ballet, while the sound button brings the composer's dazzling pieces to life. Every spread features fascinating facts about the ballet, performers, the composer, and the music.
Available Format: Book
Discover the magic of Tchaikovsky's music as you press the buttons in this beautifully illustrated sound book. There are five of his most famous tunes to hear, including excerpts from Swan Lake, the piano concerto and the 1812 Overture. The animals also tell us a little bit about Tchaikovsky's life on each page, making this a perfect introduction to one of the greatest composers of all time.
Available Format: Book
From the creative team behind the award-winning book How to Build an Orchestra, Mary Auld and Elisa Paganelli, A Little Book of the Orchestra is a series of books featuring beautifully illustrated stories about the violin, cello, clarinet, flute, trumpet, and drums and percussion. Created in partnership with, and featuring music downloads by, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
Available Format: Book
Beginner Instruments
This Recorder Fun! pack makes learning to play recorder easy, even if you've never played before! In no time at all, you'll be playing your favourite songs from the hit Disney movie Encanto. The pack includes a high-quality beginner's recorder with the feel and tuning of a pro model, plus a songbook with easy instructions. The book features a fingering chart and easy versions of songs from the movie.
Available Format: Sheet Music
A full-sized piano that fits in your backpack. Lightweight and foldable, you can take this piano anywhere you go, and with the headphone output you can practise at all hours without disturbing the neighbours!
Available Format: Folding Piano
This colourful glockenspiel from Percussion Plus is essential for every early years playgroup. Its eight note bars are colour-coded and tuned to a C major scale. A pair of wooden beaters is supplied with every glockenspiel.
Browse our glockenspiel and chime bar category here.
Available Format: Glockenspiel
This vibrant Colour & Play percussion kit contains a superb range of fun multi-coloured instruments designed especially for young children. The free downloadable Colour & Play Songbook is a great place to start playing, with numerous nursery rhymes and some pop tunes. Since the notes of the scale are colour-coded it's an easy way to get children reading sheet music.
Available Format: Percussion Pack
Regardless of your personality, you’ll be certain to find a colour to match your own style from amongst the eleven happy ukulele colours on offer. Mahalo Rainbow Series ukuleles feature geared machine heads to keep you in tune longer and Graph Tech NuBone XB bridge saddles to increase projection and bass response. Alternative colours are also available.
Available Format: Ukulele
Are you continually learning, growing, and searching for something new? The fun and engaging F310 acoustic guitar makes an ideal companion as you embark on your journey of musical discovery—leading to a sound you can truly call your own.
Available Format: Acoustic Guitar
Toys, Games, & Stocking Fillers
A traditional set of dominoes with a musical twist! Test your knowledge of music and skill playing Dominoes with this unique game. Each piece is made of resin and has two forms of music notation.
Available Format: Dominoes
Hand crank music box playing the Beatles classic Yellow Submarine. Try on wood or glass or try different surfaces for a new sound. A sweet gift.
Available Format: Music Box
These pocket-sized swatch-packs are great for quick reference at home or on the go. All the essential chords are presented on easy-to-read cards.
Available Format: Flashcards
Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
