From Katniss Everdeen’s gentle lullaby Deep in the Meadow to the Mock Turtle’s Lobster Quadrille to good old August Gloop, Marianne Levy picks the most fabulous songs in teen and children’s books
Children’s lives are lived to music, from nursery rhymes and lullabies to that first playlist, leaking from illicit headphones in the back row of maths. Which is why, for my heroine Katie Cox in Accidental Superstar, every event deserves its own song, whether it’s a family breakup or buying a new belt.
Music and youth are such natural partners, it seems only right that children’s and teen books are filled with songs. And even though we can’t hear the tunes, the best of them have a music that’s all their own. Here are a few of my favourites.
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