What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built Hi S Pianos by Lawlor, Laurie

What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823451432)

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What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built Hi S Pianos by Lawlor, Laurie

What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos

$18.99
What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built Hi S Pianos by Lawlor, Laurie

What Music!: The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos

$18.99
Format: Hardcover
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Strings quivered. Notes shimmered. Meet best friends acclaimed composer Ludwig van Beethoven and bold female entrepreneur Nannette Streicher in this lively and lyrical nonfiction picture book.

In a tall, narrow building on a wide avenue
pianos plinked and plunked day and night.
Everyone in quiet Augsburg knew the Stein home.
What music!

In 1787, aspiring yet unknown composer Ludwig van Beethoven arrives at young Nannette Stein's home. What follows is a decades-long friendship that persists whether life hits a low or high note. Acclaimed nonfiction writer Laurie Lawlor deftly depicts how these two fascinating friends--a composer with hearing loss and a woman who became an innovative piano maker in a time that discouraged female entrepreneurship--fought the odds and worked together in perfect harmony.

The author of picture book biography Fearless World Traveler, Lawlor masterfully uses forgotten historical letters, a glossary, and rich back matter on both friends' lives and art to introduce readers to the man behind the music, from his loud laughter to his crushing handshake.

Complete with Fearless World Traveler collaborator Becca Stadtlander's intricate mixed-media artwork, What Music deftly dives into musical history-and herstory-in an intimate yet expansive picture book biography that hits just the right note.

Author: Laurie Lawlor
ISBN-10: 0823451437
ISBN-13: 9780823451432
Publisher: Holiday House
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.10w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 71
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2023
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2023 pg. 101
By Laurie Lawlor
By Laurie Lawlor
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Laurie Lawlor is a prolific and celebrated author of children's books. Her picture book biography Rachel Carson and her Book That Changed the World was named a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year and a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book and received the John Burroughs Riverby Award. Her Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World was named a NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book. She lives and teaches in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Becca Stadtlander is an award-winning illustrator and fine artist. She won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration for Made By Hand: A Craft Sampler. She also illustrated On the Wingby David Elliott, which received two starred reviews as well as a Golden Kite Award. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently lives and works in her hometown of Covington, Kentucky.

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