The Fabulous Song - Hardcover

Don, Gilmore; Gillmor, Don

3.55

33 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916291804 ISBN 13: 9780916291808

Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub, 1998

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When Frederic Pipkin is born, his parents are sure he has musical talent, but it isn't until after his unsuccessful lessons on various instruments that he finds his true calling

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Review:

"In an appealing Canadian import, Gillmor takes an offbeat approach to the dreaded subject of music lessons. . . The illustrations, with their exaggerated figures, limpid watercolors, and nervous line, are full of great touches.
-- "Kirkus"

"Gilmour makes some excellent dry comedy out of his straightforward language. . . Marie-Louise Gay's illustrations suit the comic, improvisational tone and theme of the story. She uses scribbly lines and loose washes of bright colour -- and streams of musical notation, grim and annoying or bright and loopy as fits the mood, that fly out of the double-spread pages like banners of sound.
Recommended."
-- "CM Magazine"

-- Kirkus

Recommended."

-- CM Magazine

About the Author:

Don Gillmor is an award-winning journalist and travel writer. As a children's author, he has also been highly successful. The Fabulous Song, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, won the Mr. Christie Book Award, and like The Christmas Orange, was nominated for the Governor Generals Award for text.

Marie-Louise Gay is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

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