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Pages of music
By Johnston, Tony & De Paola, Tomie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39921-436-3
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1988.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1989
K-Gr 4 Long ago, the story goes, a painter and her young son visited Sardinia. The shepherds share their olives, cheese, and fogli di musica, the unusual provincial bread, thin and hard as sheet music. When the boy, Paolo, is grown, he returns to the island with an entire symphony orchestra to play the Christmas composition that he has written in honor of his beloved island and its shepherds. The grave and antique nature of Sardinia is nicely captured in dePaola's famil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
