LARGE SIZE-HARD COVER-After wandering off from a school field trip, a young boy falls asleep in the Natural History Museum. There he sees his classmates, teachers, and family transformed into a menagerie of animals, from wild hyenas to stately peacocks.John Lithgow's exhilarating word play, inspired by Camille Saint-Sa?ns's 1886 composition, provides a narrative arc to the piece for the first time. Lithgow created the text for the New York City Ballet, where the Carnival of the Animals ballet, with his narration, -.
2004 Boris Kulikov's witty artistic interpretation of the story adds to the fun.
 
AUTHOR-John Lithgow.ILLUSTRATOR-Boris Kulikov-ISBN-9780689867217