Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

Product Description

As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy.

Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States.Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too—the Civil War.

Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House!

Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa’s music bring comfort to those who needed it most?

Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book

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This picture book biography is a “Rabbit Trail” book from Beautiful Feet Book’s Music Appreciation Family Package.

All other “Rabbit Trail” titles for the Music Appreciation bundle can be viewed here. More titles will be forthcoming.