Ty’s Travels: Showtime!

Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty’s Travels: Showtime, a My First I Can Read story by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly Starling Lyons and Niña Mata. Music, imagination, and play are highlighted, making this perfect for sharing with children ages 3 to 6. 

Ty loves playing the instruments, but something’s missing—his friends! With the help of his vivid imagination, Ty and his friends are onstage in a band making great music together. 

Ty’s Travels is part of the My First I Can Read Series, which uses basic language, word repetition, rhyming, and illustrations that are ideal for emergent readers. Each page has one to four simple sentences with large, brightly colored illustrations. Plus, the cute illustrations will help young readers understand the plot. Ty’s imagination is shown by adding details—such as an audience—in crayon illustration. Another positive aspect of the illustrations is that the kids in Ty’s class are diverse.  

Showtime! encourages readers to grab an instrument and make music: “Rap-a-tap-tap! Thurm-a-thrum-thrum! Plink-a-plink-plink!” While Ty enjoys pretending the spotlight is on him, playing an instrument is even more enjoyable when his friends join in! The rhythmic text will engage readers and have them tapping out a beat and pretending that it’s showtime. To introduce young readers to the joy of music pair Showtime! with the picture book Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotton by Laura Veirs   

Sexual Content  

• None

Violence  

• None

Drugs and Alcohol  

• None 

Language  

• None

Supernatural 

• None 

Spiritual Content  

• None