Pub Date: January 1, 1999
Dewey: E
LCCN: 97036738
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 07
Physical Info: 0.10" H x 10.30" L x 8.10" W ( 0.15 lbs) 29 pages
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Description: When Frederic Pipkin is born, his parents are sure he has musical talent, but it isn't until after his unsuccessful lessons on various instruments that he finds his true calling.
Brief description: Don Gillmor; illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Review Quotes:
"In an appealing Canadian import, Gillmor takes an offbeat approach to the dreaded subject of music lessons. . . The illustrations, with their exaggerated figures, limpid watercolors, and nervous line, are full of great touches.
-- Kirkus
"Gilmour makes some excellent dry comedy out of his straightforward language. . . Marie-Louise Gay's illustrations suit the comic, improvisational tone and theme of the story. She uses scribbly lines and loose washes of bright colour -- and streams of musical notation, grim and annoying or bright and loopy as fits the mood, that fly out of the double-spread pages like banners of sound.
Recommended."
-- CM Magazine