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Barton, Chris

88 Instruments

32 pp. | Knopf | August, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-553-53814-4 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-553-53815-1 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-53823-6
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Louis Thomas. The sight of a music store's eighty-eight instruments has the effect of sugar on a child. But his parents are allowing him to select only one. How's a kid to choose? Barton's galloping rhymed text is a song unto itself that crescendos with the "plink!" of a piano, which wins the day. Thomas's loose-handed, jittery illustrations foreground the boy's attempts to play the many instruments.
Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016

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