The Sorcerer's Apprentice

A Fun, Funny, Crisp Foot Tapping Intro To Classical Music For Kids Aged 5-10.

It's A Picture Book Plus Audio CD Read by Antonia Kidman.

What's the book about?

Rizwan is a bright, impetuous young lad who is very anxious to learn the magic business from his Sorcerer boss.

Things go rapidly pear-shaped when Rizwan starts practicing some of the boss's best magic tricks before learning how to control them.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a rewrite of the 1797 German poem Der Zauberlehrling. Frenchman Paul Dukas, composed the music to Der Zauberlehrling in 1897, "L'Apprenti sorcier".

The story, which comes with a bonus music CD, unfolds to this well-loved composition which was popularized by Walt Disney in the acclaimed 1940 film, Fantasia. Mickey Mouse played the apprentice.

Everyone's favourite Disney movie, Fantasia, and it's famous musical composition, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, gets a modern twist by South Australian author Tom Skinner, renowned illustrator, Annie White and celebrity, Antonia Kidman.

Mickey Mouse is now Rizwan the camel cleaner! The Sorcerer's laboratory is now a car and camel wash!

But magic still happens!

Book Details

Illustrator: Annie White
Narrator: Antonia Kidman
Publisher: New Frontier
32 Page Hardback + CD

Only $27.95
ISBN: 978 192 104 2096

Book Reviews

The Sorcerers Apprentice is a cheerful tale with lively illustrations that match Dukas' colourful palette of sounds.

A great way to introduce this entertaining orchestral masterpiece to children.

Hallfrídur Ólafsdóttir
Principal Flute, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Author of Maximus Musicus
www.maximusmusicus.com

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