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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2004
Book and CD Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0689867212
ISBN-13: 9780689867217
Grades: P - 3
Description
But oh! what a fabulous night he had had,
When his world was turned into a zoo!
After wandering off from a school field trip, a young boy falls asleep in the Natural History Museum. There he sees his classmates, teachers, and family transformed into a menagerie of animals, from wild hyenas to stately peacocks.
John Lithgow's exhilarating word play, inspired by Camille Saint-SaËns's 1886 composition, provides a narrative arc to the piece for the first time. Lithgow created the text for the New York City Ballet, where the Carnival of the Animals ballet, with his narration, debuted in 2003. Boris Kulikov's witty artistic interpretation of the story adds to the fun.
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How did you come to write this book?
This was the narration to a ballet created for the NYC Ballet by my friend the great choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. I ended up doing the narration and also dancing the elephant (see the photo at the end of the book!)
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