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My Family Plays Music

My Family Plays Music

Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

Hardback (21 Nov 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A young girl tries out different genres and instruments in this exuberant celebration of music, winner of the Coretta Scott King New Talent Award--now available in a special anniversary edition.

This is my family. We all love music, begins a young percussionist. When she plays with her father, a cellist, she taps the triangle. With her sister's marching band, she crashes cymbals together. At her aunt's jazz show, she taps a woodblock.

Elbrite Brown's lively cut-paper illustrations, for which he was awarded the Coretta Scott King New Talent Award, depict this diverse, joyous family dancing, strumming, drumming and fiddling their way through a tour of major musical styles--everything from classical string quartets, to rock and roll, to the youngest niece banging on pots and pans. They love music--and most of all, they love to celebrate and play it together.

Includes a glossary covering types of music and instruments mentioned.

Book information

ISBN: 9780823440399
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Imprint: Holiday House
Pub date:
Edition: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 32
Weight: 394g
Height: 224mm
Width: 287mm
Spine width: 14mm