(FYI for Got this book with CD and it's beautiful. Really a fun and gorgeous book to read and listen to. It would be great for a music lesson because the kids could hear how the music sounded like elephants or a bird or whatever. On the CD the reading of each page is followed by a section of music from the ballet performance. A boy falls asleep in a museum on a class trip and dreams of his classmates, teachers, etc all transformed into animals. John Lithgow's narration of the book is excellent. Got this book with CD and it's beautiful. On its own, the style of illustration was off-putting to me and the poems were overall less engaging than with the beautiful instrumentals to go along with it.more I liked it with the music that goes with it. Lithgow were to reprise his role as the nurse.
I imagine it would be great fun to see this actually performed, especially if Mr. I still don't care very much for the style of illustration, but the poems were more enjoyable than I remembered. On its own, the style of illustration was off-putting to me and the poems were overall less engaging than I feel almost the same way about this book on a second reading as I did the first time around. Previous review I liked it with the music that goes with it. I feel almost the same way about this book on a second reading as I did the first time around.
Boris Kulikov's witty artistic interpretation of the story adds to the fun.Ī new recording of Saint-Saëns's suite, performed by Chamber Music Los Angeles under the direction of Bill Elliott, complete with John Lithgow's recitation of the text, is included on an enclosed CD. Lithgow created the text for the New York City Ballet, where the Carnival of the Animals ballet, with his narration, debuted in 2003.
John Lithgow's exhilarating word play, inspired by Camille Saint-SaËns's 1886 composition, provides a narrative arc to the piece for the first time. John Lithgow's exhilarating word play, inspired by Camille Sa There he sees his classmates, teachers, and family transformed into a menagerie of animals, from wild hyenas to stately peacocks. But oh! what a fabulous night he had had,Īfter wandering off from a school field trip, a young boy falls asleep in the Natural History Museum.
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