Contains a performance of "Danse Macabre" by French composer Camille Saint-Saens, and includes a profile of Saint-Saens, as well as an introduction to the composition, story, and key musical elements.
Introduces young readers to the different instruments in the orchestra through Camille Saint-Saen's classic composition "Carnival of the Animals, " featuring text that coordinates with each track of the included music CD.
A collection of fourteen poems inspired by Saint-Sa?ns' "Zoological Fantasy," accompanied by a fifty-five-minute CD featuring a reading of the poems and music performed by the Apollo Chamber Players.
