Another Band's Treasure: A Story of Recycled Instruments by Hua Lin Xie and Edward Guauvin - OPTIONAL

Another Band's Treasure: A Story of Recycled Instruments by Hua Lin Xie, translated by Edward Guauvin. GRAPHIC NOVEL Graphic Universe (Lerner), 2023. $29. 

Language: G (0 swears 0'f'); Mature Content: PG (underage drug use) Violence: G 

BUYING ADVISORY: MS - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW 

In a small town in Paraguay, with no schools, Mr. Diego, offers to teach music lessons to the children. But, when more kids are interested in lessons than there are instruments for, Mr. Diego's friend Nicholas gets an idea to make instruments from found items at the dump. 

Another retelling of the Recycled Orchestra. Black and white illustrations with dabs of color here and there - when the first instrument showed up in red and blue, I thought the idea would continue with other instruments, but it didn't. I thought the text was lackluster, much of the dialogue was incidental words and didn't really advance the story. I think Ada's Violin  is a much better retelling. The characters are from Paraguay 

Lisa Librarian