Gophers were the commonest thing on the prairie. When you stepped off the end of the Railroad Bridge you stepped right onto the prairie and there you were – free as the gophers. The great thing about Saskatoon was the way it ended sharp all around its edge. We were in a hurry to get out of the city and into the real prairie, where you can climb a fence post and see for about a million miles – that’s how flat the prairie is. It was the spring wind, and the smell of it made us walk faster. But we felt another breath, a gentle one, blowing across the distant wheat fields and smelling like warm sun shining on soft mud. The river was icy with thaw water and, as we crossed over the Railroad Bridge, we could feel a cold breath rising from it. Snowdrifts still clung along the steep banks of the river in the shelter of the cottonwood trees. Spring was late that year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. One May morning my friend Bruce and I went for a hike on the prairie.
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This 1996 Caldecott Honor Book describes 10 different musical. All in all, a book I would recommend to young music lovers, or to anyone looking for good read-aloud titles. Zin a Violin by Lloyd Moss, Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. The gouache illustrations by Marjorie Priceman are full of fun, with a sense of movement that perfectly complements the joie de vivre of the text, and are well deserving of the Caldecott Honor that they received. Based on the Popular Book, Zin Zin Zin A Violin, by Lloyd Moss. With mournful moan and silken tone, itself alone comes ONE TROMBONE. The rhyming text bowls along, communicating the tone and feeling of each of the instruments - the "mellow" cello, the "darkly slick" clarinet - while also keeping the rhythm joyfully alive.A celebration of music that also functions as a counting book (the soloist becomes a duo, the duo a trio, and so on), Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin is an entertaining little tale that would make an ideal read-aloud selection for story-hour. Lloyd Moss, who worked for New York's classical music station, WQXR, for fifty-three years, turned to the world of children's literature in 1995, publishing this debut picture-book about an ever-expanding group of musicians who chime in, one by one, until a full orchestra is in swing! Beginning with a single trombone, Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin builds momentum and excitement, as each new player joins the group. He comes as close as possible to death, imposing on his characters an endless suffering, because it is precisely in the deepest pain, in the eternal resistance, that the pathos of this works is manifested. The artist’s intervention also includes other women, using paint to deform them and to change the perception of the viewer, who is constantly forced to wonder what the meaning of this butchery is. 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