Picture Yourself Playing Violin published by Thomson Course Technology.
This book and accompanying DVD is the easiest way to learn the violin, because it begins at the basics with no prior knowledge assumed. As part of the Picture Yourself series, this learning package provides a progression of easy-to-follow instructions with extremely helpful pictures and diagrams that demonstrate every new technique and skill you need to learn, using the same steps and methods the author uses at her music academy.
To help reinforce the concepts in the book, the accompanying DVD includes over an hour of tutorials demonstrating the proper posture, bowing and fingering techniques explained in the step-by-step teaching method in the book. In addition, the DVD provides a performance of each beginner song with the metronome to help you learn and perfect the art of violin playing.