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The Remarkable Farkle Mcbride

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Young Farkle McBride is a musical genius: He plays the violin, the flute, the trombone, and the drums with improbable skill. But he is never satisfied: Something is missing.
In his first book, actor and musician John Lithgow introduces a memorable character, a fickle yet lovable child prodigy who brings the sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to sprawling visual life. With a double gatefold showing all of the orchestra, that is the ultimate book for the music lover in all of us.
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Star of 3rd Rock from the Sun, actor John Lithgow is less well referred to as a music enthusiast, but in his comical verse story The Remarkable Farkle McBride, he has created the musical prodigy he would possibly like to have been. Farkle is a little boy with astounding talents (he is playing violin with the orchestra by the age of 3) but little perseverance. Every year he gets bored with his instrument, takes up and masters a new one, and then gets bored with that. Of his recently beloved trombone, he says, “The racket is more than my eardrums can bear! So return it or throw it away! I don’t care!” Finally, Farkle realizes that the whole orchestra is his instrument: he finds satisfaction as a conductor, and the book ends with a gatefold of him triumphantly leading the entire other musicians. C.F. Payne’s illustrations combine a Norman Rockwell realism with a caricaturist’s humorousness. (Ages 5 and older) –Richard Farr

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