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Humorist, composer, musicologist Peter Schickele has been delighting concert-goers for three decades with his lecture-concerts on the music of J.S. Bach's most fictitious son, P.D.Q. The DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY is satire liberally salted with silliness, punsterism and a few interesting facts about the Bachs. Here he and Voegeli team up for more of an audio version than a mere abridgment. Marred by a stingy sampling of music, odd sound effects and some technical glitches, the program doesn't really warm up until the second side, which begins with skimpy excerpts from some P.D.Q. compositions. The flaws, methinks, will hardly faze the author's rabid admirers and will certainly entertain musical cognoscenti with a penchant for Humorist, composer, musicologist Peter Schickele has been delighting concert-goers for three decades with his lecture-concerts on the music of J.S. Bach's most fictitious son, P.D.Q. The Definitive Biography is satire liberally salted with silliness, punsterism and a few interesting facts about the Bachs. Here he and Voegeli team up for more of an audio version than a mere abridgment. ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (114)

Love, love, love this book!
A friend gave my son this book for a gift. We absolutely love this book.It is so delightful look at and to read.
We love the way it reads and my 2 year oldlikes us to sometimes swich out mickey's name for his own.
Some seem to forget that Mickey is having a dream.So It's okay to be baked into a cake or dive into a milk bottle in your dreams.
For those of you that have complained about the naked little boy/or just don't get it...you need to go find your imagination, you must have lost it along the way to growing up!
This is a fantastic book!!!

Kids may like it but it's disturbing for parents.
I am very surprised at the number of people who defend and even like this book.I understand that children like it and that it is an award winning book.I pride myself on being open-minded and well read but this book, for me, goes beyond what is acceptable for children.I have read the book many times to my young son (it was given to us by a neighbor) and tried to understand the appeal of it.But for me, whatever redeeming qualities it has are overshadowed by the nightmarish style the illustrations and story line contain.These include: child falling through the air, losing his clothes while falling, and landing naked into a giant-sized bowl of dough. Then three pale, overweight, identical-looking male chefs appear and fold him into the dough and throw him in the oven.He begins to get baked in the dough (!!) until he pokes out and says he's not the milk and doesn't want to be baked.All of this is quite disturbing and I really don't know anyone can read it any other way.The boy, Mickey, has to use ingenuity and cleverness to escape the creepy chefs and return home.I would never give this as a gift and am going to throw our copy out.

My daughter loves this!
I agree with the other reviews, this book is strange at first glance. However, my 2 year old daughter absolutely loves it and has memorized the entire book. The phrasing was a little odd and the flow of the rhyming words and non-rhyming words was hard to read at first. That being said, it's far from an "LSD trip" and closer to something that appeals to little ones with active imaginations.

Great book, despite the 'nekkid' boy (pssst, the book is for your KIDS, not their prude Nazi parents)
I bought the book because my son is always fascinated by stories that are a bit out of the ordinary and lend a lot to the imagination (Where The Wild Things Are, Moondog, Harold And The Purple Crayon, Dr. Seuss, etc.). He is 4, and believe me, my son is seriously no prude. Sometimes I'm embarrassed by that, buy whatever. The story is a bit odd, and I'm not sure that I get it, but I'm not reviewing the book how I see it (parents, you get THAT?), but by my son suggesting it every night at bed time. I enjoy the imagery, the artwork is pretty amazing. There is really not much of a story, more of a bit of words accompanying a great picture book. As far as the 'nekkid' kid (as the rednecks seem to refer to it as), it's pretty harmless unless you are from another planet. You can plainly see that it's a boy, and even my son laughed at it the first time and said 'Daddy, that's me!' If you like the other books that I mentioned, and you don't go to a church where you have to hold snakes (believe it or not, I'm a practicing Baptist), then this is a great book for your collection.

Not even close to Sendak's best
OK. First let me say this. My objection to this book is not because I am uncomfortable with my toddler daughter seeing a naked little boy. She knows the right terms for both male and female body parts, we haven't shielded her from realizing that boys look different, and we have a very positive body image home. That being said, this book, in this day and age, gives me the creeps. It seems as if every day there is another story in the news about pedophiles. While I have taught my daughter that nakedness is good and that her body is a gift from God, I have also taught her that she is not to show it to strangers, that it is private. To have a little boy playing naked in front of strange men seems, to me, weird, disturbing, and in our current social climate, wrong. And he gets a reward of cake at the end? Raises some eerie parallels to the way that pedophiles manipulate their victims with rewards for compliance with their wishes. And the milk bottle? Hmm, wonder where Freud would go with that one.
That objection aside, this book is not redeemed by its plot, either. Another reviewer mentioned an LSD trip, and they hit it right on the head. I like a lot of Sendak's other work, but this one found it's way into my recycle bin. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2632 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: P. D. Q. Bach.(Bibliography)
Author: H. Stephen Wright
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 57Issue: 4Page: 1002

Article Type: Bibliography

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