Strike up the band for Amelia Bedelia! Young readers will cheer loud and long for Amelia Bedelia as she makes her musical debut in the school orchestra's concert. The conductor, however, isn't quite as enthused with this virtuoso of literal interpretation. Amelia Bedelia is just as happy with a flat bee as with a B flat. And if you need a wind instrument, well, what works better than an electric fan? Amelia Bedelia is as funny as ever, and her legions of admirers are sure to demand an encore performance.

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Gr 1-3‘Herman Parish, the nephew of Peggy Parish, admirably carries the torch in the continuation of this well-loved series. When Mrs. Rogers asks her very literal maid to go to the train station to pick up the conductor for the school concert, Amelia Bedelia returns with the train conductor. And so begins another story of misunderstandings, this time set within the musical world of a school concert. When a bee is busily buzzing around Amelia Bedelia, she flattens it with a pair of cymbals, disrupting the orchestra and further provoking the already irate conductor. "Would you call that B-flat?" he asks. "Absolutely," says Amelia Bedelia. "A bee couldn't get any flatter." Sweat's clear cartoon illustrations work well with the text and reflect today's multicultural awareness with the inclusion of various ethnic groups. Amelia Bedelia devotees will not be disappointed by her latest wacky adventure.‘Amelia Kalin, Valley Cottage Library, NY