Customer Reviews

The Maestro Plays

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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 crawler will drag it across the room and plop it in my lap. How can you say no to a request like that?

Nonsense in the best sense. Rhythm and clown. How can you miss with this, when, in the middle of the madness "He stops. He mops his brow"?

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!

I used this book to introduce adverbs to my second grade class. The variety of word choices to describe how the instruments are played is fun. The illustrations draw the students in and make finding the adverbs memorable.

I love love love this book! I have collected children's books for several years now, and this is one of my favorites. The words, font, and illustrations are all fun and beautiful. I recommend this book for any young children and new readers. It's a great book to read with your kids.

This is a book that my granddaughter heard her beloved Gordon (from Sesame Street) read. While I am not nearly as talented an orator, I love reading this book aloud. The pictures are wonderful - bright - bold and the text is full of great vocabulary that begs for expression and drama. My grand daughter asks for it often and we both delight in acting it out as we turn the pages.

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 illustrations.

Yes this book could be a starting point for discussion on types of musical instruments and also a lesson on adjectives.