The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
Author: Roberta Flack, Tonya Bolden Category: Autobiographies, Biographies and Non-Fiction, Black History, Elementary School, Family, Inspiration and Personal Growth, Music, Preschool Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books Language: English Reading Age: Elementary School, Preschool Illustrator: Hayden Goodman More DetailsThis autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green.
Growing up in a Blue Ridge mountain town, little Roberta didn’t have fancy clothes or expensive toys…but she did have music. And she dreamed of having her own piano.
When her daddy spies an old, beat-up upright piano in a junkyard, he knows he can make his daughter’s dream come true. He brings it home, cleans and tunes it, and paints it a grassy green. And soon the little girl has an instrument to practice on, and a new dream to reach for–one that will make her become a legend in the music industry.
Here is a lyrical picture book–perfect for aspiring piano players and singers–that shares an intimate look at Roberta Flack’s family and her special connection to music.
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
Written by Roberta Flack with Tonya Bolden
Illustrated by Hayden Goodman
Source: Publisher (Anne Schwartz Books)
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