My First Book of Christmas Songs: 20 Favorite Songs in Easy Piano Arrangements (Dover Music for Piano) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Dover Music for Piano

Beginning pianists will love playing these beloved favorites in musically attractive, easy arrangements: Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, Joy to the World, Silent Night, Away in a Manger, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, 12 more. Includes illustrations.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (July 9, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486297187
• ISBN-13: 978-0486297187
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
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60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the price, November 16, 2004

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J. Haughton (Beaumont, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My First Book of Christmas Songs: 20 Favorite Songs in Easy Piano Arrangements (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

Here are the 20 songs in the book:
Angels We Have Heard on High; Jingle Bells; Away in a Manger; Joy to the World; Silent Night; Deck the Halls; O, Come All Ye Faithful; Song of the Birds; The Coventry Carol; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; We Three Kings of Orient Are; The First Nowell; O Little Town of Bethlehem; What Child is This?; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Christmas Tree; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Pat-a-pan; Shepherds, O Shepherds.
There are illustrations throughout the book for children to color, and all-in-all it's not bad for the price. I do wish, however, that all the verses of the songs could have been included (only the first verse is given) so that you wouldn't have to buy a Christmas songbook separately or hunt down verses on the Internet.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A couple of sour notes, but overall...good., January 10, 2005

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DasReboot - See all my reviews

This review is from: My First Book of Christmas Songs: 20 Favorite Songs in Easy Piano Arrangements (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

Having purchased this for my kids to use and practice in time for Christmas 2005, I pretested all the music and found it to be a nice starter set of Christmas music for the piano student in their first or second year of training. The arrangements tend to be minimalistic. Caveat: there are at least two obviously wrong notes in The First Nowell and Jingle Bells, so you'd be well advised to correct them once you find them; hopefully they'll fix them by the time a second edition rolls out. Nice features: Each song can be played without turning pages. A charming black-and-white illustration accompanies each song. There's also a list of the songs in order of difficulty for those who want to learn the songs that way.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, but not a primer level Christmas piano book, January 11, 2008

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CCags829 (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My First Book of Christmas Songs: 20 Favorite Songs in Easy Piano Arrangements (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

This is a great book from Dover Publishing. The layout and illustrations are nice, but there is one infamous typo, and frankly, this is a book for more advanced elementary piano students. As a teacher, I've got quite a collection of Christmas music books, and this is definitely not a "first book." If you're looking for more simpler music that's much better geared for younger children, look for the Bastien collection.