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Elo?sa's Musical Window

Elo?sa's Musical Window

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Availability:In StockContributor:Margarita Engle, John Parra (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2024-08-27Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781665935289ISBN-10:1665935286UPC:9781665935289Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Places, Performing Arts, FamilyBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin America, Music, MultigenerationalSize:10.30 x 9.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCFZMRGPC6
Inspired by stories from her mother's childhood, acclaimed author Margarita Engle and award-winning artist John Parra have crafted a vibrant picture book about a young girl and her family who find joy in the music flowing from outside their window.

Eloísa loves music, but with her family too poor to buy a radio, she can only hear it when rhythms and melodies drift through her open window. Birds and cats raise their voices in daily choruses, and songs from a neighbor's radio travel through the air. On the street below, children shake maracas and beat a steady rhythm on bongo drums and a lute, a cowbell, and un güiro round out the orchestra.

The sounds of her neighborhood are music enough for Eloísa, but when Mamá gets sick and the family can't afford medicine, can la música soothe her the way it's always comforted Eloísa?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781665935289ISBN-10:1665935286UPC:9781665935289Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Places, Performing Arts, FamilyBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin America, Music, MultigenerationalSize:10.30 x 9.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCFZMRGPC6
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpr? Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

John Parra's illustrations for Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos, written by Monica Brown, earned the book a New York Times Best Illustrated Book designation. He also illustrated Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Thong, which received a Pura Belpr? Honor and the Am?ricas Book Award: Commended; Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans by Phil Bildner, which won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration and was a Bank Street Best Book of the year; and Hey, Wall, by Susan Verde, which School Library Journal called "a must-purchase" in a starred review. Learn more at JohnParraArt.com.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Margarita Engle, John Parra (Illustrator)

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Margarita Engle

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