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Lithgow, John

Carnival of the Animals

40 pp. | Simon | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-86721-2 $17.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Boris Kulikov. Oliver spends the night at the Natural History Museum, where he witnesses the animals coming to life in the guise of people he knows (e.g., his classmates are hyenas, his schoolmaster a lion). Originally written to accompany an orchestral suite (CD included), the wordy text probably works better on a stage than in picture-book format. The anthropomorphized-animal renderings are engaging.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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