La Salsa Bilingual Picture Songbook Series

Sherri Ross, MA, MT-BC

The La Salsa series is a set of bilingual picture songbooks by Sherri Ross, MA, MT-BC. In each book, characters take a musical journey and learn about musics and instruments from different cultures. There are currently three books in the series, each described below. In the original story, La Salsa, Ignacio Iguana finds that music helps him make friends. In books 2 and 3, the band goes on adventures to find more friends, explore different cultures, and musical genres. All musical sequences, character names, instruments, animals, and settings are indigenous to certain geographical areas where the music is part of the culture. These stories may also be utilized to target both functional skills (social, communication, etc) with music therapy interventions, and music education skills for early childhood/elementary students. Suggested, but not exhaustive, lists of skills are included in the books. The reader may also find musical sequences for each book on the SlowJam Music YouTube channel by searching SlowJam La Salsa (look for the icon of a turtle with a ukulele on its back or a picture of the first book). All story books are bilingual, translated by a bilingual speech/language pathologist. 

La Salsa

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Audio Materials for La Salsa

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La Salsa and the Texas Two-Step

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Audio Materials for La Salsa and the Texas Two Step

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La Salsa Plays the Blues

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Audio Materials for La Salsa Plays the Blues

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About the Author

• Sherri Ross, MA, MT-BC, is a board-certified music therapist, working with children with special needs in a school district setting. She received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in music therapy from Texas Woman’s University, and is also certified as a Texas music educator. She supervises a music therapy internship program approved by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), training music therapy interns from AMTA accredited universities around the United States. She has published in Music Therapy Perspectives, has presented on numerous occasions for regional and national AMTA conferences and for the Texas Music Educators’ Association (TMEA), and is a recipient of regional and local awards in the areas of education, support services, and advocacy for people with special needs.