In this sympathetic follow-up to Horace and Morris but Mostly
Dolores, Howe and Walrod depict a girl mouse''s frustrated singing
attempts and leaven it with humor. "Horace and Morris but mostly
Dolores loved to sing." When they make music, Horace hits "the high
notes." Morris provides "the low notes." Dolores, whose
voice-bubble "La la la" is inscribed in a wavery line, sings "notes
no one had ever heard before." No one minds, least of all Dolores,
until she suggests the three audition for
內容簡介:
Best friends Horace, Morris, and Dolores do everything
together. So when they try out for the chorus and Dolores who
sings notes no one has ever heard before doesn''t get in, she feels
hurt and angry and -- not like Dolores at all -- sorry for herself.
But mostly she feels lonely, with her friends too busy rehearsing
to have time to share adventures with her. So Dolores does what she
does best and takes matters into her own hands. But can she prove
to Moustro Provolone that there''s a place for every kind of voice
in the chorus?
關於作者:
James Howe is the author of over eighty books for young
readers, including the modern classic Bunnicula and its highly
popular sequels. In 2001, Howe published The Misfits, the story of
four outcast seventh-graders who try to end name-calling in their
school. The Misfits is now widely read and studied in middle
schools throughout the country, and was the inspiration for the
national movement known as No Name-Calling Week, an event observed
by thousands of middle and elementary schools annually. Totally
Joe, a companion novel to The Misfits, was published in 2005, and a
second companion novel, Addie on the Inside, is being published in
2011. Howe''s many other books for children from preschool through
teens frequently deal with the acceptance of difference and being
true to oneself.