Theory Made Easy for Little Children, Level 1 Sheet music – 1 Jan. 2001

Arrived timeously. Ideal for pre schoolers and p1

Lots of stickers! Many varied and enjoyable activities that put child in control of their learning.

Good starter for children

My five year old just started learning the piano. As a grade 5 pianist myself, I absolutely recommend this book. All the concepts are explained in a simple way adjusted to the age of the recipients, the book includes stickers, there is plenty of exercises so kids have a chance to acquire the material very well before moving to another concept

A great series for young children. It does require some basic maths abilities, for example being confident in the knowledge of the different combinations that add up to 4, so you can't start them too early on the theory, but the stickers really help and encourage remembering and recall. My only complaint with this, and the other books in the series, is that the stickers on the edge of the sticker page always come off by themselves once you've started opening the book and it bends on its binding. They can then fall out or get stuck on your arm when you're reaching across the book, and can easily get lost. If the stickers were provided on more pages and not up to the edge, this phenomenon would resolve itself. This is the only reason I couldn't give 5 stars.

I wanted to give my 7 year old some basic music lessons myself and wanted some material to help me as I am not a music teacher and didn't want to put her off with a dry boring approach. This first book first introduces some different length notes with their names and appearance, what stave and clef are and what simple time signatures mean. It goes on to show the pitch of a few notes and where to find them on a keyboard some basic fingering etc The first notes learnt are the cdefg below middle c. These are fine for piano of course but as we are learning guitar it is an octave below the notes beginner guitarists usually start with but not a big issue. I can't recommend the approach the book takes highly enough. The information is presented in tiny increments with lots of repetition and there are loads of colourful stickers to place in boxes, matching games, mazes etc giving the feel of an entertaining activity book. Would think it suitable for an interested 4 year old and still not too insulting for 9 or 10 year old. Obviously not for adults! My daughter has absorbed and retained all the information presented in a painless way and is thoroughly enjoying the game of clapping out rythms to many of mummy's simpler pieces of music. Will be buying further books in the series ASAP.

I was recommended this book by my 5 year olds piano tutor. He has been playing for a year and it was time for him to get this book, it has helped him improve his skills and he loves his ‘dinosaur piano book’.

It is a very good book for little beginning artists,It has interesting and entertaining activities. I recommend it!