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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2018 | XpressReviewsWebOnly
PreS-Gr 1—An independent lad heads to the park to hum away on his harmonica, when he spies a rabbit plunking away on a piano, who is joined by a bear with a guitar, a squirrel on the violin, a hippo on the string bass, and a monkey on a tambourine. The quintet starts to jive. Although the protagonist is in the park without his mother, little ones will be happy to notice that she is never too far a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2018
A child brings a harmonica to the park to take advantage of "the perfect kind of day for playing music outside." At the woodsy edge of the park he encounters a rabbit playing a grand piano and asks to join her. With successive page-turns, more animals arrive-a bear with a guitar, a squirrel with a violin, a monkey with a tambourine-each introduced with the onomatopoetic description of the sound his or her instrument makes ("brrinnn, brrinnn, brrinnn...wiii, wiii, wiii...tann, tatta, ta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on March 1, 2019
A child with a harmonica encounters a rabbit playing piano at the park. With successive page-turns, more animal musicians arrive, leading to a concert. Cleverly, r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More