88 Instruments
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"The rhythmic, onomatopoeic text dances across exuberant watercolors with lots of movement. This celebration of a child’s agency in choosing a means of artistic expression strikes just the right note." --Kirkus
"A delightful offering for reading aloud, especially during music-themed storytimes."
--School Library Journal
From New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton and new illustrator Louis Thomas comes a fun, rhythmic picture book about finding the music that is perfect for you!
A boy who loves to make noise gets to pick only one instrument (at his parents urging) in a music store, but there is too much to choose from! There’s triangles and sousaphones! There’s guitars and harpsichords! Bagpipes and cellos and trombones! How can he find the one that is just right for him out of all those options?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's time to take up an instrument, and Barton's young narrator, confronted with 88 options at the music shop, is overwhelmed. "How am I supposed to pick just one?" he asks, as his beaming parents look on. Each instrument, the boy discovers, has a distinctive, superlative quality: the accordion is "the squeeziest," a triangle is "the easiest," a trombone is "the slideyest." Working in ink and watercolor, newcomer Thomas draws a young man so serious and eager that at one point he's tackling four instruments simultaneously it's clear that no one will need to force him to practice. Ultimately, it's the piano that strikes a chord, even with its 88 keys to master: "I'll just learn it one note at a time," he says. It's a little disappointing that Barton (Mighty Truck) dodges why exactly the piano becomes the perfect choice for his hero, but the book is spot-on in a bigger sense: when music education works, it's because instrument and student feel made for each other. Ages 3 7.
