About the Illustrator
Valorie Fisher is the author and illustrator of several books, including When Ruby Tried to Grow Candy, How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, and My Big Brother. Her photographs for the Moxy Maxwell books have been called “fresh,” “creative,” “funny,” and “snort-inducing.” Valorie’s photographs can be seen in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. She lives in Cornwall, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2009 by Peggy Gifford
Photographs copyright © 2009 by Valorie Fisher
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.
Moxy Maxwell does not love practicing the piano / by Peggy Gifford;
photographs by Valorie Fisher.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: On the day of her recital, ten-year-old Moxy prepares for it in her usual flamboyant way which creates chaos at home.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89289-9
[1. Concerts—Fiction. 2. Piano—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction. 4. Brothers and
sisters—Fiction. 5. Humorous stories.] I. Fisher, Valorie, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.G3635M1 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008036639
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