Review: Superb Color, with a Moral
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2013
I won a copy of this book from LibraryThing. The author has requested an honest review."Music With The Fairies" by Joe Clarke is a brilliant and vividly colorful tale about two girls, Olivia and Lisa, who are stuck in the house because of a terrible storm outside. Quickly growing bored, they decided to play the piano to help pass the time. Sitting side by side on the piano bench, one girl started playing the high notes, but her sister said it was too high. So she started playing the low notes, but the first girl said it was too low. Then, perhaps trying to outdo each other, they both started playing together, and the high and low notes blended into a beautiful song.Suddenly they noticed a fairy standing outside on the window sill! The fairy motioned for them to come outside, so they made a mad dash through the storm to the fairy. The fairy asked them "What was that beautiful song you were playing?" and then led them into a thicket, and then to a clearing in the thicket where a bunch of fairies were sitting around, looking depressed.It turns out the fairies also had a piano, but none of them could make it sound as pretty as the song the two girls were playing, and they asked the girls to show them how they did it. Both girls started playing again, and the fairies realized that TEAMWORK was what made the difference!The artwork in this book was fabulous, and sure to maintain the attention of any child to whom the book is read. It also has a moral - TEAMWORK gets the job done best - and kids are never too young to start learning that lesson.All in all, this is a very good book for the very young child, who is still at that stage where they want to have a book read to them at bedtime each night. I highly recommend it.