It's a whimsical story of a squirrel who creates a violin out of a pear and mesmerises the whole forest with his beautiful music - and eventually all the animals end up playing beautiful music on their pear instruments. The illustrations are bright and cheerful.
Age 3+A small squirrel finds a large yellow pear and decides tomake a violin from one half of it. When he plays his pearviolin, beautiful music fills the forest and all the animals stopwhat they are doing to follow the magical sound. One day,the squirrel drops a pear seed and then, up grows a hugepear tree filled with pears of all different sizes. He sharesthem with the animals who join together to play music in amoonlight concert.Children's books: Stephen Romei's picks the best of the bunch and includes Muddle & Mo, Two Unhappy Fish, The Moving House, The Cowardly Lion and The Pear Violin in his list.