Remarkable Farkle McBride, The

From Aladdin

by John Lithgow, C. F. Payne (Illustrator)

You and your students will love this amazing book about a boy who gradually works his way through all of the instruments, mastering them and discarding them. Finally he finds satisfaction as a conductor because the whole orchestra is his instrument. Of course, the real joy is C. F. Payne's illustrations, which combine a Norman Rockwell realism with a caricaturist's sense of humor. What wonderful pictures of the instruments and performers! (hardcover; 70 pp.; 12" x 9.35")