Cassie Loves Beethoven Tapa dura - 2000

Hyperion. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0786824891 . Ex-library book, but still in very nice condition - mylar cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. Pages are clean and tight, overall wear is light. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "When Hallie and David decide they want a pet cow, their father reluctantly agrees. After all, the children have promised to take care of it, and it will be an educational experience for everybody. But as the family brings their new pet home to their farm, they can't even begin to imagine how educational the experience of living with Cassie will turn out to be. The cow won't produce milk, and the kids try everything. And then they hit upon the solution: Beethoven....." (400noto) .

Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in tan/purple boards displaying minimal surface/edge wear. 3 small, dim spot on front board, else as new. You can feel the tightness of NEW. Never has music wrought more profound change than in this engaging bucolic tale from the author of Some Fine Grampa! (1995). Hallie and David Kennedy's new cow Cassie won't give milk. Even the vet doesn't know what to do, but retired librarian Vivian Keats, who always does, suggests playing music. The young folks' father, Myles, hauls out his short-wave radio (this is Cape Breton Island, where the airwaves carry limited musical choices), and tunes in to a classical station. The results are as unexpected as they are immediate. Cassie begins to talk, and not just in monosyllables either: after hearing Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony, she rhapsodizes, " 'How does he feel so much? And then once he feels these things, how does he make us feel along with him? How does he make sound tell… Leer más

library. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.