The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano, written by Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman published in 2017 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers Fascinating! The evolution of today’s piano from its ancestors the clavichord …
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Tour the World — Destination: The Caribbean and Mexico
Today our tour lands in the islands of the Caribbean. When I started working on this tour six months ago, I surely did not imagine the way it would overlap with the devastation of hurricane Irma. In addition to these …
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¡hola amigos!…a list of five latino stories to spice up your life
As someone who knows…sort of…French, but is limited to counting to ten in Spanish, I realize I’ve largely passed by the rich trove of Latino kids’ lit which is being published here in the U.S. I’m trying to correct that …
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a list of…five books about mingling cultures
A Country Far Away, story by Nigel Gray, illustrations by Philippe Dupasquier A young boy from the dry, hot, sandy lands of West Africa, and a young boy from the green-lawn, attached-garage suburbs of America (or Europe), tell us about …