The Sound of a Guitar

by Catherine Stier, Francesca Rosa (Illustrator)

Overview

A budding musician conducts experiments to discover how guitars create sound.

After hearing her cousin Keeley perform an amazing concert, Mia is determined to become a guitar hero and learn everything she can about this amazing instrument. So she sets out to gather the knowledge she needs to build her own instrument and put on a show for her family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807572788
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	05/11/2023
Series:	Science Makes It Work
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Lexile:	AD620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Catherine Stier is the author of more than 20 children's books including the Science Makes it Work picture book series and the Kirkus star-reviewed A Dog's Day chapter book series. She holds a master’s degree in reading and literacy and has served as a magazine writer, newspaper columnist, and writing instructor. Stier resides in San Antonio, Texas.

Francesca Rosa was born in Italy and is a graduate of the School of Comics in Milan. She spent two years working as a fashion graphic designer before becoming a full-time illustrator. Now she works in her studio in Milan with her husband Lorenzo.

Editorial Reviews

"Sweet notes aplenty in an episode featuring a young DIYer with both music and science in her life."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-01-25
Young Mia gets a start on her dreams of becoming a guitar hero by studying how the instrument makes sounds.

Dazzled after watching her older cousin Keeley shredding with a band in the park, Mia uses book and web resources to find out about the history and construction of (acoustic) guitars. Then, after demonstrating with a simple kitchen physics experiment how sound waves work, she makes a cardboard instrument by stringing a cracker box with big rubber bands. Having shown her dad (and readers) how to control pitch and amplitude, she debuts at her grandpa’s backyard birthday party, and if “it didn’t sound much like ‘Happy Birthday to You,’ ” as Stier realistically comments, she still gets an enthusiastic response from her extended family…and better yet a real starter guitar from latecomer Keeley, who joins her delighted cousin for a glorious set of tunes. Mia and her family are brown-skinned. Several of the adult women in Rosa’s bright, simply drawn cartoons wear hijabs, and the party’s guest of honor is clad in a thobe. There is some racial diversity visible in group scenes.(This book was reviewed digitally.)

Sweet notes aplenty in an episode featuring a young DIYer with both music and science in her life. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews