Before Melanie Ellsworth was a writer of pictures and middle-grade books, she was an ESL teacher in Boston's Chinatown. She dreams and writes in lovely Midcoast Maine, where her daughter and her dog provide daily inspiration for her picture books.
John Herzog is an award-winning illustrator and educator
who teaches illustration classes at Ringling College of Art and
Design. He lives in Florida with his wife--who is a musician whom
he consulted for this book-- and two kids.
★ "A lyrical tour de force about individuality, friendship, and community, this humorous picture book highlights such values through musical instruments, showing how even small fractures can become deep divisions....readers of all ages will relate to the loss of friendship and how this can sometimes become an overall divisiveness within a once whole community."--School Library Journal, STARRED review "Music aficionados and pun aficionados alike will appreciate the many musical puns interspersed throughout the text."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books --
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