BOUNCE HIGH, BOUNCE LOW: MY FIRST MUSIC BOOK. SONGS TO SING, NOTES TO DRAW, GAMES TO PLAY, PICTURES TO COLOUR. Lantos, Edith. Toronto, The Frederick Harris Music Co., 1988. 45pp, paper. $4.95, ISBN 0-88797-235-7. CIP Professional Reviewed by Christine Buchanan Volume 16 Number 6 1988 November Bounce High, Bounce Low by distinguished music teacher Edith Lantos is both a teacher's manual and a children's workbook based on the structured Kodaly sequence of learning singing and musical notation. A useful two-page preface explains the philosophy and musical elements. The rest of the book consists of songs and games that practise these various items, together with very brief instructions to the teacher and pictures for the children to colour or simple written exercises. The material is generally excellent and is derived from the songs and rhymes of children's folklore. Any music teacher of children aged three to about six would be able to use most of the pieces here with success. The songs are carefully chosen with a fairly narrow musical range to aid development of correct pitch, consistent with the Kodaly method. Teachers without formal musical training or parents simply wishing to enjoy songs and musical activities with their children without worrying about instruction would be better off with books such as Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Jam* or the modest but useful Ladybird series, "Learning with Traditional Rhymes." Definitely recommended for music teachers of young children and for libraries of institutions dealing with musical education. Christine Buchanan, Toronto, Ont. *Reviewed vol. IX/2 1981 p.115.