A little boy on his way to a tuba lesson is sidetracked by animals wanting to hear him play for them. There's much more: his path is a music staff. The notes he plays are playfully developed in visual images like a leaf and then a few creatures and more creatures. The music notes and staff become completely chaotic, and everyone gets into the act. The boy's loudest note, or maybe it was his lowest one, awakens a bear who dissembles the spontaneous concert. Ah, but music soothes the savage beast! A wacky, imaginative, abstract story with very few words requires young readers to think for themselves and be ready - like the animals in this picture book - to join in the chorus, if not the orchestra! (Ages 3-7)