Pet of the Met

by Don Freeman and Lydia Freeman

Book Overview

A classic returns Viking is pleased to reissue this Don Freeman tale about an operaloving mouse. Maestro Petrini, the tiny page-turner for the Prompter at the Metropolitan Opera House, has always... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140508929
• ISBN13: 9780140508925
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Opera Lovers of Children

Don Freeman does it again. Lovely book. Great way to illustrate how one can be carried away by music. Music creates a lasting friendship between cat and mouse.

A Mouse's View of Opera

"Pet of the Met" is an enchanting story about a mouse and his family who live and work in the Metropolitan Opera House. The adventures of Maestro Petrini as he works as a page turner, and his subsequent run-in with Mefisto the cat, offer children an easy and interesting entrance to the world of opera, and to the story of "The Magic Flute". The illustrations are lively and colorful and the view of the "teeny-weeny" Petrinis dressed as characters from the Magic Flute never fails to raise giggles when I read this book to first-grade students.