This presentation describes the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in the selection and use of textbooks for a 10-week course in acoustics for undergraduate physics majors at the junior or senior level at Central Washington University. This course emphasizes both theoretical and experimental skills; topics include damped harmonic systems, vibration in strings, bars, and membranes, plane and spherical wave propagation in air, and basic geometric acoustics. Two textbooks are employed for this course: the recently published Understanding Acoustics by Steve Garrett and the fourth edition of Fundamentals of Acoustics by Kinsler and Frey, revised and extended by Coppins and Sanders. Although both cover essentially the same topics, they have different attributes that facilitate learning at the undergraduate level. They are supplemented by online materials, interactive simulations, and journal articles. Examples of how these texts are used, and assessments of their efficacy, will be discussed.This presentation describes the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in the selection and use of textbooks for a 10-week course in acoustics for undergraduate physics majors at the junior or senior level at Central Washington University. This course emphasizes both theoretical and experimental skills; topics include damped harmonic systems, vibration in strings, bars, and membranes, plane and spherical wave propagation in air, and basic geometric acoustics. Two textbooks are employed for this course: the recently published Understanding Acoustics by Steve Garrett and the fourth edition of Fundamentals of Acoustics by Kinsler and Frey, revised and extended by Coppins and Sanders. Although both cover essentially the same topics, they have different attributes that facilitate learning at the undergraduate level. They are supplemented by online materials, interactive simulations, and journal articles. Examples of how these texts are used, and assessments of their efficacy, will be discussed.