The Maestro Plays
by Bill Martin, Jr.
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Pictures accompany a brief rhyming story describing the antics and sound of a violinist's recital.Tags
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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.
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.
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.
The Maestro Plays is a book for younger children, maybe around preschool and kindergarten. It has a great amount of adverb usage and full page pictures. There are also many made-up words for the point of rhyming. This book is an excellent one for teaching children how to play with words and create whatever kind of word they would like.
http://www.billmartinjr.com/books This is a website with great information on the life of Bill Martin Jr as well as his books.
http://www.billmartinjr.com/books This is a website with great information on the life of Bill Martin Jr as well as his books.
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.
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.
Age Appropriateness: Early Primary
Genre: Realisstic Fiction
Critique: This book is a realistic fiction because it is about a man who plays many different musical instruments. Although this is a simple book and there is not much character, plot, or setting development going on, it does create a good setting through the pictures and words working together.
Genre: Realisstic Fiction
Critique: This book is a realistic fiction because it is about a man who plays many different musical instruments. Although this is a simple book and there is not much character, plot, or setting development going on, it does create a good setting through the pictures and words working together.
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Children's writer Bill Martin, Jr. was born and raised in Hiawatha, Kansas. Ironically, the future early childhood educator had difficulty reading until he taught himself, before graduating with a teaching certificate from Emporia State University. After graduation, he taught high school drama and journalism in Kansas. He served in the Army Air show more Force as a newspaper editor during World War II. He wrote his first book, The Little Squeegy Bug, for his brother, Bernard, an artist, to illustrate while recuperating from war wounds. It was published in 1945 and the brothers would go on to collaborate on 10 more books by 1955. He earned a master's degree and doctorate in early childhood education from Northwestern University and became principal of an elementary school in Evanston, Ill., where he developed innovative reading programs. In 1962 Martin moved to New York City to become editor of the school division of Holt, Rhinehart and Winston where he developed the literature-based reading programs Sounds of Language and The Instant Readers. Martin returned to full-time writing in 1972 and ended up writing over three hundred children's books during his career. His titles include; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear?, The Ghost-Eye Tree, Barn Dance, and Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom. He died on August 11, 2004 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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