In Bill Martin Jr.'s "The Maestro Plays" the reader gets to experience a full performance of instruments by the main character. Using adjectives, and rhyming, the author creates a rhythm to the book, where you feel the music swelling up and down. This book would be good for 1st and 2nd graders, due to some of the words being a bit longer. I would this book as introduction to adjectives, and how they can make a text more powerful. ( )

The story is about how a maestro plays his instrument. The words are silly, unusual, rhyming, and all end the same way. It can be used for teaching about suffixes and rhyme. ( )

I like the big blobby colourful arts and the many many instruments he plays, and Emmett likes in particular the ring of dancing pigs, but 1) u mean virtuoso? the maestro is the conductor? and 2) this book was written by the world's biggest luvvies and "fruity" is the only word for it. ( )

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35 months - this book has bright bold colors great for babies but unfortunately all it made me want to do was attempt to imitate the musical instruments which I'm very unsuccessful at. I don't know what a baby or toddler would get out of this book without the sounds to go with it. ( )