Chuck's Band

by Peggy Perry Anderson

Overview

Chuck and his barnyard friends are having a jam session and beginning readers are invited for a toe-tapping, knee-slapping good time. But what is the matter with Fat Cat Pat? Does she want her own musical instrument too, or is something else making that cat blue? Readers will have fun finding out in this perfectly pitched story! Full of rhyme, repetition, and musical instruments galore.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544926219
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Series:	Green Light Readers Level 1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

PEGGY PERRY ANDERSON is a former elementary school art teacher who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has written and illustrated six early readers about Joe the Frog. They include Let's Clean Up, Joe on the Go, To the Tub, Out to Lunch,  Time for Bed, the Babysitter Said, and I Can Help!.

Editorial Reviews

"[T]his pleasing picture book would make a good intro to musical activities for young children." Booklist 02/15/08 Booklist, ALA

"Bright acrylics, a cleverly rollicking text and the introduction of many farm animals and instruments nudge this above average."—Kirkus Kirkus Reviews

"… comical art and rhythmic text will keep the youngest chuckling, while the entertaining rhymes are great for new readers." Horn Book —

From the Publisher

While cogitating in his rocking chair, green cat resting at his feet, Farmer Chuck gets a notion and goes into town to Ariel's Music Store. He buys a banjo for himself and a mandolin for goat Flo. Once they start playing, other farm animals run to join in, starting with dogs Nip and Tuck (on harmonica and guitar, respectively). The big cow Lou joins in on the washtub, and sow Sue adds a mean fiddle. Chuck goes back to town for more instruments, adding a bass violin for Huck the workhorse and a washboard for Luck the duck. The chicken and Buck the mule add vocals. Poor Fat Cat Pat feels left out. Chuck takes her to town, where he buys the cat a pair of earmuffs, perfect for sitting at her master's feet as the band plays on. Bright acrylics, a cleverly rollicking text and the introduction of many farm animals and instruments nudge this above average. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews

07/01/2017
PreS-Gr 1—Chuck lives on a farm, and on one of his trips to town, he purchases a banjo, inspiring the farm animals to create a band. Flo the goat joins with a mandolin, Nip and Tuck the dogs play the guitar and the harmonica, Lou the cow joins with the washtub, and Sue the pig plays the violin. What a joyous sound they all make, having fun with a "cluck, hum, pluck." Only one friend is left out; Fat Cat Pat does not want to play. So Chuck takes her to town, where he discovers the perfect "instrument" to accompany the band during Fat Cat Pat's kitty nap. Anderson delivers the story via short sentences, simple concepts, and basic language. The rhyming prose flows naturally, like a song, producing a pleasing balance between words and their onomatopoeia counterpart. Beginning readers will have fun with the humorous setting and laugh at the surprising end. The lively primary colors and crayon-based illustrations add delightful details not present in the text. VERDICT An excellent addition for most libraries.—Kathia Ibacache, Simi Valley Public Library, CA

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