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Snicket, Lemony

The Composer Is Dead

40 pp. | HarperCollins | March, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-123627-3 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-123628-0 $18.89
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Carson Ellis. Snicket's musical mystery begins with a murder. A comically overzealous inspector then interrogates each section of the orchestra. Puns and wordplay figure heavily while information about the instruments is imparted. Delicate line illustrations with lots of white space help readers navigate the tale's deliberate cacophony. A CD of the story read by Snicket, accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony, is included.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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