Before Music: Where Instruments Come From Sheila Kanani BOOKLOVER’S COUNTDOWN CALENDAR: Enjoy 25

BOOKLOVER’S COUNTDOWN CALENDAR: Enjoy 25 days of bookish fun with this irresistible advent calendar based on Jane Mount’s beloved bestseller

they run into a trickster spirit who gives Aster three wishes

From the elegant typography and silhouetted endpapers to the twelve color plates and the addition of myriad decorative elements — ornamental heads

Ember fears he’ll never collect a respectable hoard of gold until a chance encounter with a baker causes his fortunes to turn (and his stomach to grumble)

She understands that Safi could learn how to control her magic under the apprenticeship of a king's magician

Before Music: Where Instruments Come From Sheila Kanani BOOKLOVER’S COUNTDOWN CALENDAR: Enjoy 25From award winning author Annette Bay Pimentel and illustrator Madison Safer, Before Music is an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments are made across time and around the world. Music doesn't come out of nothing. It always starts somewhere . . . with something . . . with someone. Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized by material from wood to gourds to