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What child can resist a piano? Though the symphony pounded out by some young musicians may sound more like noise to adults, it will always be music to the kid who is playing it. My Friend the Piano takes a fresh and funny look at the differences between adult and child sensibilities.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3A story about childhood creativity that seems to be told from an adult perspective. When a child begins to "compose" on the family piano, Mother insists that the youngster learn how to play and stop making noise. The lessons don't go well, and Mother decides that the instrument must go. A woman agrees to take it, intending to turn it into a storage chest. While helping Father move it, the child climbs onboard and calls out directions, leading the instrument on a wild ride that culminates in a swan dive into the sea. The last page shows the piano swimming and making music with the dolphins. The book starts out as a reminiscence of a treasured relationship between the child and the piano, but the story is soon overwhelmed by the animosity that develops between the child and the mother, who has no patience for or appreciation of this young musician's creativity. Hawkes's illustrations, acrylic paints on paper, show an anthropomorphized piano that expresses joy when the child composes, terror while being tuned, and grim determination while making its getaway. The paintings are disproportionate and garish with the piano's keys seeming more like teeth than inviting ivory playmates. This is an interesting premise that results in a less-than-inspired finished product. Spare yourself from this ode to being different and recommend instead David Shannon's A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic, 1998).Susan M. Moore, Louisville Free Public Library, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
For this fantasy adventure of a musical instrument with a will of its own, Cowan (My Life with the Wave) taps into the classic experience of learning to play the piano, to the whimsical accompaniment of Hawkes's (The Poombah of Badoombah) full-bleed acrylic paintings. An unnamed narrator likes to bang away at the piano, which for her makes exquisite music ("At times the piano wept. At other times it shrieked with laughter"), but to her mother produces only cacophony. Despite all the girl's efforts to practice scales, plus repeated visits from the piano tuner, the narrator cannot perform well enough to please her mother. As the woman endeavors to rid the house of the piano, the girl helps her friend escape to the sea. In the beginning pages, Cowan get mired in wordy explanations, and never really develops the friendship between the girl and her piano before readers get caught up in the wild getaway ride. Instead, readers depend on Hawkes's dynamic personification of the instrument to carry them through: the piano sprouts purple bristles when the girl plays what her mother dictates; when it flees, its legs course through the streets like the limbs of a racehorse. While this may strike a familiar chord with fledgling pianists, the story may not be strong enough to carry them through to the final notes. Ages 5-8. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
A showdown between creativity and rigidity emerges when a girl's piano will play only her improvisational compositions and not the standard scales and practice pieces her mother insists she learn. Hawkes's vibrantly colored paintings show the piano cavorting and raising its hackles like an animal as it moves, with the girl's help, toward a dramatic escape into the sea, where it can play her symphonies without interference. From HORN BOOK Spring 1999, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A girl discovers the piano and starts composing in this entry from Cowan (My Life With the Wave), a very loose adaptation of a story by Aníbal Menterio Machado. Although the piano and the girl are clearly soul mates, what is music to the girl's ears is poison to her mother's: ``That is not playing. It's noise.'' The mother orders lessons, but both girl and piano balk at the routine and the stifling of their creativity. The practice sessions are flat or sharp or atonal, never fun or successful. When it looks as if a grandmother is going to come to live with them, the mother puts the piano up for sale, but it misbehaves for prospective buyers. Indeed, the piano, as a piano, can't be given away; the woman who claims it plans to turn it into stripped and painted storage. The piano literally bristles at this outrage; Hawkes has ably and elegantly shaped the artwork for this book, in perfect concord with Cowan's words. In the process of delivering the pianothe girl and her father are rolling it to its fatethe instrument, with the girl on top, makes its escape into the wide blue sea (she jumps off at the last minute). The piano serenades the girl with symphonies carried to the shore on breezes from distant climes while she composes ``for pots and pans,'' a musical undertaking that serves those wretched parents right. (Picture book. 5-9)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 5^-8. Children (even grown-up ones) who hate to practice the piano will find a soul mate in this funny and clever picture book. The first-person narrator calls her music "composing." But her mother just calls it "noise." When the child is forced to take lessons, her "friend the piano" cooperates by falling silent--or going out of tune. After several tunings and an attempt to sell the piano fails, Mother and Father decide to give the darn thing away. But as Father pushes the instrument down the driveway, the girl and her piano make their getaway, whizzing down city streets and through pedestrian traffic before the piano flies over a cliff and neatly deposits itself in the sea. Not to fear--every evening the little girl (and her mother!) return to Symphony Rock to hear "the susurrous sound of my symphonies . . . safe in my friend the piano." Hawkes' delightfully imaginative paintings contribute to the mayhem with a strong sense of rhythm and movement, rich glowing colors, and exaggerated perspectives. With its open lid and ivory keys, the grand piano looks just like a person, albeit a slightly menacing one. --Julie Corsaro