When Uncle Took the Fiddle

Gray, Libba Moore

ISBN 10: 0531331377 / ISBN 13: 9780531331378

Published by Orchard Books, 1999

About this Item

EX-LIBRARY A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.

Seller Inventory # DU-05-09-01-0243

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Uncle Took the Fiddle
• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0531331377
• ISBN 13: 9780531331378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bloom, Lloyd
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Uncle's inspired playing of the fiddle causes sleepy family members to pick up other instruments and join him, while the neighbors come to join the celebration

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 2-A swinging hymn to life. Although a family is tired at the end of a long day, "Grandpa's feet began to tap./Grandma's hands began to clap./Brown Dog lifted floppy ears./Ziggle, ziggle, zang..." and the impromptu party is on. Neighbors are lured by the sounds: "The music floated out the door/to folks down in the hollow,/where Homer Jenkins started humming/as he headed up the hill." Soon, everyone, including the young narrator, is dancing. "Hand in hand,/we circled round/until the music/spindled down-/Zing-a-zingle zing." Bloom's soft colored-pencil drawings perfectly match the mountain setting and, like the folks they portray, teem with life. This book is as irresistible as Uncle's fiddle tunes, and begs to be read aloud.
Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
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