The Maestro Plays
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Rating | : | 4.48 (854 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0152050639 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-02-08 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"music" according to Melissa Sack. This is as simple picture features a clown type character. He plays all sorts of instruments in various ways. For example he plays his drum loudly and proudly. He plays hi trumpet busily and dizzily. The book is full of word play.The text is in elegant rhyme, perfectly complemented by the bright, original & whimsical. Peter Watkins said My Kids' Favorite. This book was my daughter's favorite when she was a baby. Now her new little brother has reacted in the same way. Little ones don't often have to patience to sit still while you read every page of a book, but for some reason they find the Maestro so captivating that they request it over and over again. Our little cra. joyce r yuan said The Maestro Plays. Bill Martin does another fabulous job! When read aloud, this book is musical and rythmical. It introduces children to rhyming words and is good for building children's ability to distinguish the ending sounds of words. All in all, this is a fun book to read and listen to. My preschool students love it!
In this cunningly, punningly performed tour de force, Maestros Bill Martin Jr and Vladimir Radunsky show readers just how masterfully they can play with words (while also teaching them about adverbs).Bravo! Bravissimo!
And how does he play? In an intriguing variety of ways, including some that are easy enough to understand ("flowingly, glowingly, knowingly, showingly, goingly") and some that will require youngsters to use their imaginations ("nippingly, drippingly, zippingly, clippingly, pippingly"). Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Radunsky's (The Pup Grew Up!; Hail to the Mail) stylized, hand-colored, cut-paper art triumphantly illustrates Martin's (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?) playful paean to adverbs. The book's mischievous type (it changes size and position from one spread to another), rompish rhyme and dazzling colors will keep youngsters turning the pages quickly, contentedly, repeatedly. . Ages 2-6. At center stage is a clown-like creature, "The Maestro," who plays a progression of instruments