Author: Lemony Snicket
Website: www.lemonysnicket.com/
Illustrated by: Carson Ellis
Website: www.carsonellis.com/
Media Used: Ink and Watercolor
Summary: The composer is now decomposing and it is up to the Inspector to found out who killed him. Was it the strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion section, or the conductor?
Personal Reaction: A little bit of humor helps to introduce the different instruments that make up an orchestra. The Inspector reminds me a little of the inspector in the pink panther - just a little slow behind the rest but determined to solve the case. This would be a great book to read in a music class. In an advanced class, you could have the appropriate instrument play when they are being discussed. My version of the book also came with a CD. On the musical CD, you had the option of listening to the story being narrated with music or just the instrumental background. I particularly liked the shadow images that depicted the different instruments as well as the orchestra's reply that all musicians "butcher" a composer now and then, but that they also keep them alive.
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