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Pecorino's First Concert (Anne Schwartz Books)

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ISBN13: 9780689859526
ISBN10: 068985952x
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If you think you know the silliest boy in the world, you're wrong. Pecorino Sasquatch is the silliest boy in the world. Just watch him as he heads off to the first concert he's ever seen, conducted by the world-famous Vittorio Pimplelini. Before the day is out, Pecorino will furmuzzle a man with a long mustache, wamboodle himself down into a tuba, and cause the most Brobdingnagian blast of a note that anyone has ever heard. It's all in a day's work for Pecorino.

This delectably silly musical adventure, written by Alan Madison, the second-silliest boy in the world, features pictures by AnnaLaura Cantone, the silliest illustrator in the world (unless Pecorino decides to take up drawing).

Review:

"Young Pecorino Sasquatch has a zucchini-size schnozzola, goofy asymmetrical eyeballs and a pet cat that resembles a raccoon (or lemur). He is described as 'so silly that when it was cold he wore shorts and when it was hot he wore mittens,' although he's more a klutz than a comedian. When his doting mother — with her golden gown and brunette beehive — announces that she's taking him to a concert featuring 'the world famous conductor Vittorio Pimplelini,' Pecorino doesn't know what she means, but he and his cat go along willingly. On the bus to the performance, he stares at a fellow passenger's voluminous black mustache until the annoyed man 'storm[s] off the bus and into the great, green park, his wondrous mustache warbling in the wind.' At the concert hall, Pecorino climbs onstage before the musicians arrive and gets stuck in a tuba — guess whose. Madison, making his debut, enjoys a well-embellished turn of phrase; a 'Brobdingnagian blow' on the tuba shoots Pecorino free and into his mother's lap. Cantone (My Favorite Thing [According to Alberta]) contributes mixed-media collages, detailed with swatches of sheet music, wiry tangles of red and black line, and red, aqua and mustard-brown brushstrokes. She and Madison labor to suggest hilarity, but zany names and pratfalls don't quite redeem this slapstick tale. Ages 4-8. (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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This wonderfully wacky picture book tells the story of Pecorino Sasquatch, a silly young boy who takes the reader along for an inside look at a concert orchestra. Full color.
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About the Author

AnnaLaura Cantone is the illustrator of many silly children's books, including My Favorite Thing (According to Alberta) by Emily Jenkins, as well as the two Pecorino books. She lives her husband in Milan, Italy.
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Jennifer Starkman, July 7, 2007 (view all comments by Jennifer Starkman)
How does one even begin to describe the best things about the story of the silliest boy in the world and one of his silly adventures?
Perhaps the best way to explain what is so great about Pecorino?s First Concert is to avoid bothering with the details of its most obvious appeal altogether?that being the simple fact that a book about the silliest boy in the world is likely by its very nature to be amusing, which this story most definitely is?and focus on its additional, less predictable benefits.
For one thing, aside from the funny bits of the narrative itself, author Alan Madison has a wonderful way with language, using interesting words (both real and invented) and descriptive phrases in a manner that gives the story the sort of depth and texture that is difficult to describe but makes for a captivating reading experience.
Another nice surprise is the artwork. AnnaLaura Cantone?s illustrations are distinctive and offbeat?colourful, childlike, wildly exaggerated, and (best of all) brimming with a feeling of movement that carries you through the story without ever slowing the flow of its hilarity.
Pecorino?s First Concert is a special book, one of those few whose elements all come together to create something more than just a story. This is the sort of book that becomes a childhood favourite, and that adults and children can enjoy together again and again.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780689859526
ill.:
Cantone, Anna-Laura,
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Illustrator:
Cantone, Anna-Laura
Author:
Madison, Alan
Author:
Cantone, Anna-Laura
Location:
New York, N.Y.
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Social Situations - New Experience
Subject:
Performing Arts - Music
Subject:
Concerts
Subject:
Social Issues - New Experience
Copyright:
2005
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
B221
Series:
Anne Schwartz Books
Series Volume:
no 79
Publication Date:
June 2005
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
40
Dimensions:
9.5 x 10.5 in 16.835 oz
Children's Book Type:
Picture / Wordless
Age Level:
4-8
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Product details 40 pages Atheneum Books - English 9780689859526 Reviews:
"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "Young Pecorino Sasquatch has a zucchini-size schnozzola, goofy asymmetrical eyeballs and a pet cat that resembles a raccoon (or lemur). He is described as 'so silly that when it was cold he wore shorts and when it was hot he wore mittens,' although he's more a klutz than a comedian. When his doting mother — with her golden gown and brunette beehive — announces that she's taking him to a concert featuring 'the world famous conductor Vittorio Pimplelini,' Pecorino doesn't know what she means, but he and his cat go along willingly. On the bus to the performance, he stares at a fellow passenger's voluminous black mustache until the annoyed man 'storm[s] off the bus and into the great, green park, his wondrous mustache warbling in the wind.' At the concert hall, Pecorino climbs onstage before the musicians arrive and gets stuck in a tuba — guess whose. Madison, making his debut, enjoys a well-embellished turn of phrase; a 'Brobdingnagian blow' on the tuba shoots Pecorino free and into his mother's lap. Cantone (My Favorite Thing [According to Alberta]) contributes mixed-media collages, detailed with swatches of sheet music, wiry tangles of red and black line, and red, aqua and mustard-brown brushstrokes. She and Madison labor to suggest hilarity, but zany names and pratfalls don't quite redeem this slapstick tale. Ages 4-8. (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Synopsis" by , This wonderfully wacky picture book tells the story of Pecorino Sasquatch, a silly young boy who takes the reader along for an inside look at a concert orchestra. Full color.
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