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PreS-Gr 2—A bespectacled boy is given the opportunity to learn an instrument, but when his parents bring him to a music shop, he has trouble choosing among his 88 options. What ensues is a playful exploration of sound and the vast (and cacophonous) world of musical instruments. The boy's overwhelmed parents follow him as he tries out the triangle, trombone, tuba, harp, and drums and everything else in between. Barton's use of superlatives results in a hil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Move over, kid in the candy shop: a child has been unleashed in a music store, and the sight of its many -- eighty-eight -- instruments has the effect of sugar on him. But his parents are allowing him to select only one. How's a kid to choose? Does he go with "the slideyest... / the squonkiest... / the blowiest... / the honkiest... / the toot-iest or grooviest or shiniest? / Or maybe just the tiniest?" The galloping rhymed text, featuri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The sight of a music store's eighty-eight instruments has the effect of sugar on a child. But his parents are allowing him to sel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More