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Elizabeth Nygaard. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Snake Alley Band. Doubleday, New York, 1998. 32 pages. $5.99 paperback. ISBN 0440413524.

While the snake band plays in snake alley (with sound effects), baby snake finds a log and falls asleep. There he hibernates. At the end of winter he looks for the snakes, but they aren't there. Searching, he meets many animals with bands and varied sounds, but he rejects them. But when he finds his fellow snakes, their band now seems too homogeneous. So he retraces his steps and forms a "multicultural" band of creatures and sounds, and calls it the Snake Alley Band.

Lewin's artwork is done in line drawings, full of energy, with bright washes of water color.

Recommended reading level: Age 4-8

Reviewed by Evelyn Butler

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