Many composers have enjoyed using music to portray animals and their appearance, movements and sounds. In some of these pieces, you might even guess which animal is being portrayed, even if you don't know the title. This book, with its 30 compositions, gathers a large variety: tiny ones like the fly and the grasshopper, huge ones like the bear and the elephant, dangerous ones like the panther and the shark, tame ones like the kitten or the dog, animals living underground like the mole, on trees like the monkey, or in the air like the birds, the wasp or the butterfly. This book therefore provides a rather colourful and instructive 'zoology' for piano lessons.

M. Schoenmehl: Wasp Sting Blues
F. Couperin: The Benevolent Cuckoosen Kuckucke
A.E. Müller: The Cuckoo Waltz
R. Schumann: Hide and Seek
F. Burgmüller: The Wagtail
P.I. Tschaikowsky: Song of the Lark
W. Kasandijiev: A Magic Concert in an Enchanted Forest
M. Kelemen: The Cricket Tunes its Violin
S. Majkapar: The Butterfly
S. Prokofjew: Marsh of the Grasshoppers
J. Takacs: The Little Fly
S. Stojantschew: The Kitten and the Fly
A. Gretchaninoff: Pussy Is Ill
W. Kasandijiev: "Bow" the Dog
M. Schoenmehl: Chicken Talk
D. Kabalewski: A Little Hedgehog
M. Schoenmehl: The Mysterious Predatory Fish
Jakob, the Funny Mole
A. Gretchaninoff: Monkey's Dance
C. Scott: The Monkey
C. Gurlitt: The Little Horse
R. Schumann: A Dappled Horse
A. Gretchaninoff: My Little Horse
D. Carr Glover: Wilde Ponys
D. Dushkin: Tiger Cubs Teasing each other
A. Chatschaturjan: The Leopard on the See Saw
H. Mancini: The Pink Panther
R. Schumann: Bear's Dance - B. Bartók: Bear's Dance
A. Gretchaninoff: Elephant's Dance