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The Philharmonic gets dressed / by Karla Kuskin ; illustrations by Marc Simont.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading rainbow bookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1982Copyright date: ©1982Edition: 1st edDescription: 44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0060236221
  • 9780060236229
  • 006023623X
  • 9780060236236
  • 006443124X
  • 9780064431248
  • 0738315311
  • 9780738315317
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: The 105 members of the Philharmonic Orchestra get ready for a performance.Summary: It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker, and here and there around the city, ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First, they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one-hundred-and-five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing. In these pages, Karla Kuskin and Marc Simont combine their talents to give us a delightful and unusual inside view of one way an orchestra prepares.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Picturebook My Body KUSKIN KARLA Available 33111010920110
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing.

In these pages Karla Kuskin and Marc Simont combine their talents to give us a delightful and unusual inside view of one way an orchestra prepares.

Nominee, 1983 American Book Award
Notable Children's Books of 1983 (ALA)
1983 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1982 (NYT)
A Reading Rainbow Selection
1983 Teachers' Choices (NCTE)
Children's Books of 1982 (Library of Congress)

"A Charlotte Zolotow book."

Marc Simont was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books.

The 105 members of the Philharmonic Orchestra get ready for a performance.

It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker, and here and there around the city, ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First, they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one-hundred-and-five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing. In these pages, Karla Kuskin and Marc Simont combine their talents to give us a delightful and unusual inside view of one way an orchestra prepares.

Ages 4-8.

750 Lexile.

Reading Counts K-2 3.7 2.

Accelerated Reader LG 4.4 0.5.

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