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The Orchestra Pit (2014)

by Johanna Wright(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1596437693 (ISBN13: 9781596437692)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: I really wanted to like this book more that I did. The story idea is great and sheds a positive spin on snakes however the story is missing something. We start with the snake in a pit but we don't know how the snake came to be in the pit. The snake then explores the different instruments in an orchestra. Then decides he like his "snake" pit better. More information would have been helpful in this get to know the orchestra book.
review 2: Who knows how it happens, but a friendly snake ends up wandering into the orchestra pit instead of the snake pit. As the reptile investigates various instruments, it causes quite a stir among the musicians. I especially liked how the snake is "quite attached to the bass" (unpaged) and curls around the instrument, but once he ... morehides an compares the musical sounds he is hearing to sounds from nature, my interest started to flag. The lively acrylic illustrations trace the snake's adventures and near the end reveal just how he could manage to get the two pits confused because of their proximity. The story is a bit strange, but the snake is simply adorable. We need more picture books that depict snakes in a positive light and debunk the myths that many individuals believe about them. less

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