Here are our favorite books about music for kids. These books are a fantastic exploration of sound and music, rhythm and rhyme.
Updated April 2024
Do your kids love music? Ours do! Turn story time into song time with books about music.
Here are a few of our favorite kids’ books about music and also some picture books that are more like illustrated songs.
These are FUN books, which is why we keep returning to them over and over again!
The Best Books About Music for Kids
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins and Illustrated by Eric Gurney
My Family Plays Music by Judy Cox and Illustrated by Elbrite Brown
The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats
The Wheels on the Bus adapted and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Knick-Knack Paddywhackadapted and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Over in the Ocean, In a Coral Reef by Marianne Berkes and illustrated by Jeanette Canyon
Fiddle-I-Fee, adapted and illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Skip to My Lou  and The Lady with the Alligator Purse, and Miss Mary Mack, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Lloyd Moss and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt and illustrated by R.G. Roth
Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes and illustrated by Karmen Thompson
This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, Paintings by Kathy Jakobsen
Hip Hop Dog by Chris Raschka, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Music, Music for Everyone by Vera B. Williams
Night Noises by Mem Fox, illustrated by Terry Denton
Hush, Little Baby by Brian Pinkney
Crash! Bang! Boom! by Peter Spier
Jazz Baby by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Laura Freeman
We’re Going on a Lion Hunt by David Axtell
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
What are your favorite kids’ books about music?
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