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A review by calistareads
Brundibar by Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak
3.0
This is a story based off an opera, I don’t know the opera being sourced. 2 children find their mother sick and the doctor tells them to run to town and buy milk. They have no money. They are in town and the milkman will not give them milk.
The 2 look around and see an organ grinder and monkey singing and dancing and making all kinds of money. It gives them the idea they can sing for money. The hurdy gurdy is so loud that you can’t hear the children. So, the kids ask for help and many other children come help them as they all sing a song. Everything ends well.
It’s a cute story. Maurice Sendak did the art and it’s pure Maurice. The colors are beautiful and look like they have been colored using crayola’s, which you don’t see often in his work. The setting is a Jewish village.
The children thought this was fun. These 2 kids had to outsmart the organ grinder and my kids love it when the kids are sly and outsmart the adults. So the nephew gave this 4 stars and the niece gave it 3 stars. The niece did ask how milk was going to help the sick mother. Good question I told her. Keep thinking my dear, I said.
The 2 look around and see an organ grinder and monkey singing and dancing and making all kinds of money. It gives them the idea they can sing for money. The hurdy gurdy is so loud that you can’t hear the children. So, the kids ask for help and many other children come help them as they all sing a song. Everything ends well.
It’s a cute story. Maurice Sendak did the art and it’s pure Maurice. The colors are beautiful and look like they have been colored using crayola’s, which you don’t see often in his work. The setting is a Jewish village.
The children thought this was fun. These 2 kids had to outsmart the organ grinder and my kids love it when the kids are sly and outsmart the adults. So the nephew gave this 4 stars and the niece gave it 3 stars. The niece did ask how milk was going to help the sick mother. Good question I told her. Keep thinking my dear, I said.