In this new edition of the classic companion to Tales for the Perfect Child, Sergio Ruzzier lends his signature humor to Florence Parry Heide and Sylvia Worth Van Clief’s delectably subversive fables. Genevieve is careless. Muriel is discontented. Phoebe is always putting off until tomorrow what she should be doing today. And Chester is the…
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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano
In The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano, award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes. Some of his keyboards…
