In the night gallery, the cords of a Yoruba talking drum begin to tighten by themselves. Felix and Noor touch it together and land in Ọ̀yọ́, two days before the new yam festival, where an old drummer has hurt his wrist and his grandson must drum the town's praise at dawn. Felix knows how to help: write it down.
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Book details
- Series
- Studio Detectives, Book 3
- Ages
- 10–12
About the Studio Detectives series
Studio Detectives is a series of illustrated adventures for readers aged ten to twelve about art, music and performance. Felix, who draws everything, and his sister Noor, who drums on everything, go to work at night with their dad, a museum guard in Paris. When the galleries are dark, some works begin to hum, and if both children touch one, it takes them into its own story. Each book delivers one art form through a real work, a real time and the evidence of how it was made.
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