Banjo of Destiny - Cary Fagan

Banjo of Destiny

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2011
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-55498-086-4 (ISBN)
8,70 inkl. MwSt
Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program.


Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man: etiquette lessons, ballroom dancing, watercolor painting. And, of course, classical piano.


Jeremiah complies, because he wants to please his parents. But one day, by chance, he hears the captivating strains of a different kind of music -- the strums, plucks and rhythms of a banjo. It is music that stirs something in Jeremiah's dutiful little soul, and he is suddenly obsessed. And when his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway -- even if he has to make the instrument himself.

CARY FAGAN writes books for children and adults. He has won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature, the Jewish Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, among others. His picture books include A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, illustrated by Banafsheh Erfanian, and Son of Happy, illustrated by Milan Pavlović, which was named one of the Best Canadian Picture Books of 2020 by CBC Books. Cary lives with his family in Toronto. Selcuk Demirel was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He moved to Paris in 1978 and still lives there. Visit Selcuk Demirel's website: http://www.selcuk-demirel.com/

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.9.2012
Illustrationen Selcuk Demirel
Zusatzinfo B&W illustrations throughout
Verlagsort Ontario
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 190 mm
Gewicht 127 g
Themenwelt Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher Kunst / Musik
ISBN-10 1-55498-086-0 / 1554980860
ISBN-13 978-1-55498-086-4 / 9781554980864
Zustand Neuware
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