I picked this up because I noticed a picture of a bass clarinet while I was checking for damage, and I just wanted to look at the bass clarinets. Now that I see what the book is, though, I'd like to find others in the series. I can't imagine that very many children would read these books before deciding on an instrument to play—which happens as early as fourth or fifth grade—but I think that's a shame, because there's a lot of interesting information here. Lots of pictures, a very short history of the instrument, and spotlights of famous musicians and pieces that feature it (for the clarinet, of course, it was "Rhapsody in Blue," by George Gershwin). I'm hoping our library has more of the series.