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    The Orchestra Pit
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    The Orchestra Pit

    By Johanna Wright

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    About this ebook

    When a slightly befuddled but surprisingly endearing snake wanders into the wrong pit—the orchestra pit—peculiar things start to happen. A well-meaning snake interacts with the orchestral instruments, scares the musicians and conductor, and causes general chaos in this sweet and funny book by Johanna Wright, author of Bandits and Bunnies on Ice.

    A Neal Porter Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 19, 2014
    ISBN9781466869646
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    The Orchestra Pit
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    Johanna Wright

    Born in Eugene, Oregon,  Johanna Wright has received degrees in puppetry and children’s literature. She is the author of The Orchestra Pit. After living in Brooklyn, New York, Johanna has now returned to Oregon where she spends much of her time writing, painting, and searching for Sasquatch. She lives in Portland with her musician husband and their daughter, Juniper.

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    • 3/5
      A snake is lost. This snake is very sure that it’s in the wrong pit, because instead of a snake pit, it’s found its way into the orchestra pit. The snake explores the orchestra pit for a while, discovering that trumpets are loud, tubs are roomy, and trombones are long. The snake is unaware of what is spooking the orchestra members and keeps looking at the different kinds of instruments. Soon the orchestra begins playing and the snake leaves the wrong pit and finally makes it into the right one.

      This book is an excellent way to introduce children to a few animals as well as the main instruments of an orchestra. Parts of the story seem to be missing, like how the snake came to be lost in the orchestra pit or why it decides that the snake pit is much better, but the story is amusing and simple enough to accomplish its teaching purposes. This book is a playful introduction to how snakes can be friendly and to the musical world.
    • 4/5
      Appealing, playful and a good educational introduction to musical instruments.
    • 2/5
      introduces kids to musical instruments making it interesting to kids of various ages. A snake crawls around and thinks he hears animals from the zoo. He is confused by the various instruments and realizes he is in the wrong "pit" he crawls back to the zoo and finds his correct pit, his home. 3-5th grade