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"A hilarious story about being true to yourself, working together and the power of music! Joni sat on her farmhouse porch, just listening. Her cows were making music. Cerlery's voice was round and mellow like an old apple barrel. Nutmeg could make the mandolin tinkle and dance like a fresh mountain stream. ""I love that old MOO-grass music,"" sighed Joni. On Joni's farm, cows Celery and Nutmeg are the star attraction. Everyone loves listening to their MOO-grass music. When the roof is blown off their barn, the cows get to work busking to pay for its repair. Soon Georgie Smarm hears the cows play and whisks them off on a money-making music tour! But when Georgie makes the cows change their style and keeps all the money for himself, Celery and Nutmeg head back to the farm. Can they use their musical talents with with famer Joni and the other animals to raise enough money for a new roof? A funny, sweet farmyard tale about teamwork and originality, The MOOsic Makers is a great buy for 3 - 6 year olds."

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Originally published in the U.K., this uneven farm-to-fame fable follows Celery and Nutmeg, two talented cows who make 'that old MOO-grass music.' When a storm blows the roof off their barn, the two start busking to rescue their home. Capturing the notice of a mysterious stranger named George Smarm, the duo is swept up in an exploitative manager-talent relationship, forced to swivel to DisCOW Music, change their image, and suffer embezzlement. The pair resolves to break free and raise funds their own way, conveyed in Bakos's textural digital art. A subplot concerning an underappreciated sheep and a donkey feels extraneous, and the worldbuilding is inconsistent (only some animals don clothing), but the book serves as a prescient reminder about mooing to one's own beat.--Publishers Weekly -- Journal (7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM)

""". . . [A] prescient reminder about mooing to one's own beat.""--Publishers Weekly -- (7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM)"

Originally published in the U.K., this uneven farm-to-fame fable follows Celery and Nutmeg, two talented cows who make 'that old MOO-grass music.' When a storm blows the roof off their barn, the two start busking to rescue their home. Capturing the notice of a mysterious stranger named George Smarm, the duo is swept up in an exploitative manager-talent relationship, forced to swivel to DisCOW Music, change their image, and suffer embezzlement. The pair resolves to break free and raise funds their own way, conveyed in Bakos's textural digital art. A subplot concerning an underappreciated sheep and a donkey feels extraneous, and the worldbuilding is inconsistent (only some animals don clothing), but the book serves as a prescient reminder about mooing to one's own beat.--Publishers Weekly -- Journal

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Heather Pindar has more than twenty years' experience as a teacher; she currently works in a school in London. She finds that the children's brilliant imaginations and love of stories are her biggest inspiration for writing picture books. Barbara Bakos grew up in a suburb of Budapest and now lives in England and Turkey. She can't remember a time when she wasn't drawing.

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