Ten Great American Composers

by Carmen Bredeson, Ralph Thibodeau

Profiles the lives of ten famous American composers, including their backgrounds, the struggles they faced, and the works they composed.

104 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Carmen Bredeson is the author of The Spindletop Gusher: The Story of the Texas Oil Boom. She has also written more than 50 non-fiction books for children on topics such as space, exploration, holidays, history and geology. She travels the world getting ideas for her books with her husband, a petroleum engineer. She lives in Katy, Texas.

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great jumping off point for studying composers - we read each one aloud, and then if we could find a children's book about the artist, the girls read those on their own. We listened to some of each composer's music using Spotify and the girls did notebooking pages on several of them. It took us longer than it really should have because we had to return the library book midway through and it took us about a month to go check it out again. Would love to find more books similar to this!