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  • Published: 15 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9780823440399
  • Imprint: Holiday House
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $37.99

My Family Plays Music (15th Anniversary Edition)



A beautiful new edition of a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award-winning book about music.

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.

  • Published: 15 December 2018
  • ISBN: 9780823440399
  • Imprint: Holiday House
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $37.99

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