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I just wanted to know what the story was, and hoped a nice picture-book would prove more enlightening than a wikipedia entry. Not so much. I guess I need the music, and probably a teacher too. The pictures in this are appealing, though.

I read the hardcover with the Reading Rainbow sticker, same illustration as the Puffin pb: 0140506330 ( )

The boy Peter is supposed to stay away from the big gate but doesn't listen and leaves it one day. When he does this he encounters the wolf after watching the duck, bird, and cat argue.

Large oversize, Reading Readiness, Read the story to a class, Let the students tell the story back with picture prompts

This is a wonderfully charming telling and depiction of Serge Prokofieff's classic musical tale for children. Chappell's illustrations are delightful and Holland's calligraphy sublime. The inclusion of the familiar musical theme passages for each character at appropriate points within the text effectively plants the aural element in the reader's mind. And the foreword by renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky further serves to stamp this edition as "definitive." ( )