"It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat
on his front steps and watched the clouds gather in the sky.
A strong breeze shook the tree in front of his house, and Max saw two
heavy twigs fall to the ground."
So begins this story of a young boy's introduction to the joys of making
music.
Max picks up the sticks and begins tapping out the rhythms of everything
he sees and hears around him . . . the sound of pigeons startled into
flight, of rain against the windows, of distant church bells and the
rumble of a subway. And then, when a marching band rounds Max's corner,
something wonderful happens.
Brian Pinkney's rhythmic text and lively pictures are certain to get
many a child's foot tapping, many a youngster drumming.