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The Worst Band in the Universe
by
Graeme Base
Graeme Base, creator of the two-million-copy international best-seller Animalia, has created an exciting new adventure story of truly intergalactic proportions.Base's legions of fans will be thrilled by the cosmic tale of Sprocc, a young Splingtwanger-player who leaves his home planet in search of musical freedom. Lured by the promise of fame and fortune, he enter the annu...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
September 1st 1999
by ABRAMS
(first published January 1st 1999)
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This amazing science fiction picture book is about a young alien named Sprocc who is also a musician. His planet only allows traditional music that has been passed down and looks down upon Sprocc's kind of music. This nearly gets him kicked out of his planet. Even though he wasn't kicked out, he decides to go to a different planet and meet new friends. When he meets new people, he learns about a competition that is called, "The Worst Band in the Universe." He won the competition and met more fr...more
Wow...I was impressed before, but now I think Mr. Base must be one of the most talented people on Earth. He wrote this rhyming story of epic proportions, illustrated it AND wrote and recorded the music. The artwork for this one deals completely with fictional alien characters (as opposed to the animals that I'm used to seeing), but the pictures are still ridiculously intricate and lovely. My only complaint is that the story itself is very long - only a problem if trying to share it with a little...more
This is an amazing, almost overwhelming book. The illustrations are mind-boggling as are all of the new words and vocabulary that somehow seem to make perfect sense. The book is one long song/poem with a rhyming text that flows easily, but is awfully long. We could only read a couple pages at a time, but it only served to extend our enjoyment of this story. The accompanying CD has 25 minutes of songs on it that are catchy, funky and fun. I like the overall message of the story, about the importa...more
A very different and clever book aimed at year 5/6 children but obviously able to be enjoyed by adults like me.
The book is amazingly illustrated and tells the tale of a young alien musician who lives on a planet where musical innovation is illegal. It is written in rhyming prose and it isn't short so to maintain the rhyming couplets and make them interesting and funny was impressive.
This book is quite hard to read because of the unusual sentence structure, quite sophisticated vocabulary and the...more
The book is amazingly illustrated and tells the tale of a young alien musician who lives on a planet where musical innovation is illegal. It is written in rhyming prose and it isn't short so to maintain the rhyming couplets and make them interesting and funny was impressive.
This book is quite hard to read because of the unusual sentence structure, quite sophisticated vocabulary and the...more
This book is awesome. Grame Base is a a genius. I remember that he wrote this book called the eleventh hour that i read years ago and i loved it. So I recognized his name and bought this book at a stoop sale in Brooklyn, NY. This book comes with a cd that i've yet to listen to but the story and the message are dead on. Every young musician should be given this book as a present. Frank Zappa somewhere is cheering.
I sailed the Nostalgia Sea this weekend, revisiting my Graeme Base collection before giving it away. Lovely books, and time for them to be passed on to a new soon-to-be reader. Welcome to the world little Benjamin! I'm happy to be your Auntie.
It is a children's book - a fairly long children's book - but I really like. When it is Amos' bedtime and he doesn't want to go to bed he always picks this book for me to read to him because he knows it will take a long time to get through it.
This is all Amos will listen to these days. It's a great read aloud book because of the great rhythm and funky words. It's about music, so that's a big bonus for Curt. I love listening to them read together!
As a musician and fanatic composer, reading a science fiction about the importance of creativing composition really excited me. Definitely a favorite. :)
they read this too us in primary school, art class... I can't remember why though...
Great book, written in verse, includes a CD of music by the band. We loved it!
I found this book to be a more child-friendly version of 'The Giver'. Explored many of the same themes.
Possibly the greatest story ever told.
I realy liked this book. I love Graeme Bases' ryhming stile. the only reason I gave it a three was because the illistratians gave me a head acke when I read it, that and I'll always see "The Eleventh Our" as my favorite of Bases'. Besides that it tickled my funny bone in several diferent places and I quikly got used to the rediculas caracters !
LOVE this book -- we wore out our first copy and CD. Kids love it too. Go out and get it now.
Mommy says: It was OK, but too text heavy for the 3 & 5 yo set.
Apr 12, 2013
Alex
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Graeme Rowland Base is a successful Australian author and artist of picture books that have been sold internationally. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.
He was born in England but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since. He attended Box Hill High School...more
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He was born in England but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since. He attended Box Hill High School...more
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