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The Little Piano Girl

The Little Piano Girl

The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

by Ann IngallsMaryann MacDonald and Giselle Potter
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/2011

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What if you loved music more than anything? Suppose you had just learned to play the piano. Imagine that your family has to move to a new city and you have to leave your piano behind. People don't like you in the new city because of what you look like. How will you make yourself feel better? Mary Lou Williams, like Mozart, began playing the piano when she was four; at eight she became a professional musician. She wrote and arranged music for Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and was one of the most powerful women in jazz. This is the story of Mary Lou's childhood in Pittsburgh, where she played the piano for anyone who would listen.

ISBN:
9780618959747
9780618959747
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-02-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
13th Edition
Dimensions (mm):
279.4x215.9x9.65mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Giselle Potter

Giselle Potter and her sister, Chloe, traveled a lot with their parents' puppet theater. They often had just each other for companionship and therefore became very close. So Potter feels so lucky to have two daughters who are also very close. Watching their relationship, she is reminded of the unique, unmatchable bond of sisters. Potter has illustrated more than thirty children's books, and many of the books she both wrote and illustrated are either about or inspired by sisters.

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