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Painting Wonder is an enchanting picture book biography about the artist whose illustrations brought the worlds of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien to life.Sku: 9781956393156(PRE-ORDER) Painting Wonder
By: Katie Wray Schon$24.95 -
Ansel Adams just couldn't sit still. He felt trapped indoors and never walked anywhere-he ran . Even when he sat, his feet danced. But in nature, Ansel felt right at home...Sku: 9781951179366
Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, A Life in Nature
By: Cindy Jenson-Elliott$29.50 -
Johann Sebastian Bach created some of the most significant music in history, including A Keyboard Practice Consisting of an Aria with Thirty Variations for the Harpsichord—commonly known as the Goldberg Variations.Sku: 9781580895293
Bach’s Goldberg Variations
By: Anna Harwell Celenza$19.95 -
From the Publisher: A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the “magic square.” A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal! Teachers and kids will love finding out about this popular teaching tool that is still used in elementary schools today!Sku: 9780375806216
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
By: Frank Murphy$7.99 -
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.Sku: 9780805063059
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
By: Joseph D'Agnese$26.99 -
The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.Sku: 9781250137524
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
By: Helaine Becker$25.99 -
In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael López tell the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln.Sku: 9781481487405
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
By: Margarita Engle$25.99 -
This is a stunning introduction to Duke Ellington—a legend who continues to live on and influence musicians everywhere.Sku: 9780786814206
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
By: Andrea Davis Pinkney$12.99 -
Sample And here is a sensitive, appealing and lively biography of America’s beloved composer, Edward MacDowell, which boys and girls will take to their hearts and treasure. His Quaker beginnings, his irrepressible interest in music, his youthful triumphs abroad, his visit to the master, Franz Liszt, his romance with his pupil, the lovely Marian Nevins, their marriage and return to America, the launching of the Peterboro, New Hampshire, colony, which bears his name— these are some of the delightful stories in the rich career of America’s greatest composer.Sku: 9781933573205
Edward MacDowell and His Cabin in the Pines
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
Sample This book is about the brilliant young Schubert, his merry friends, and their pranks and escapades. One interesting story in the book is the new light that is shed on the history of the Unfinished Symphony. There are many selections from the composer’s magnificent music in this volume. We have the March Militaire, the Moment Musicale, the theme of The Erlking, a dance from the opera, Rosamunde, Rondos, Dances, the lovely, lovely waltzes, impromptu pieces, the Cradle Song (a favorite of almost every child) and several of the beautiful songs.Sku: 9781933573137
Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends
By: Sybil Deucher, Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
Sample Frederic Chopin was a celebrated pianist and probably the greatest composer for the piano the world has ever known. He loved music from babyhood and when his family moved to Warsaw a few years after his birth, he was placed under the tutelage of the best masters of music in Poland. The story is told of his early years through the momentous day in Vienna when his playing at the theatre of Count Gallenburg actually launched his career as a major figure in the world of music.Sku: 9781933573113
Frederick Chopin, The Early Years
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
Sample Chopin returned to Vienna to find only a cool welcome awaiting him. Vienna wanted to dance and sing and forget war...and Poland was on the brink of war. In Paris, however, Chopin found himself warmly welcomed; his concerts became the vogue; his days were crowded with both gaiety and the work he loved. Years passed and the world hailed his greatest compositions. Then ill health began making inroads on his time and at the peak of his career, the great composer and pianist died in Paris.Sku: 9781933573090
Frederick Chopin, The Later Years
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
From the Publisher: Children will delight at this little-known-story about our nation's first president, George Washington, that makes for perfect President's Day readers! "Boom! Bang! Guns fire! Cannons roar! This Step 3 History Reader is about George Washington fighting in the American Revolution. He sees a dog lost on the battlefield. Whose dog is it? How will it find its master? Early readers will be surprised to find out what happens in this little-known true story about America’s first president. "Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. These books are for children who are ready to read on their own."Sku: 9780375810152
George Washington and the General’s Dog
By: Frank Murphy$7.99 -
With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director.Sku: 9781933573038
Handel at the Court of Kings
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
George Frideric Handel always knew what he liked. He was never afraid to do what he liked — whether smuggling a clavichord into the attic, sneaking off at a duke’s castle to play the organ, ordering forty-five pounds of snow to chill his wine, or writing operas that no one wanted to hear.Sku: 9780763666002
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
By: M. T. Anderson$7.99 -
A true story of courage, survival, and determination, this compelling tribute to a gifted young girl has already touched the lives of many around the world.Sku: 9780316463089
Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane
By: Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen, Adapted by Emil Sher$12.99