The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

What if you loved music more than anything? Suppose you had just learned to play the piano. Imagine that your family has to move to a new city and you have to leave your piano behind. People don’t like you in the new city because of  what you look like. How will you make yourself feel better? Mary Lou Williams, like Mozart, began playing the piano when she was four; at eight she became a professional musician. She wrote and arranged music for Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and was one of the most powerful women in jazz. This is the story of Mary Lou's childhood in Pittsburgh, where she played the piano for anyone who would listen.

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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

What if you loved music more than anything? Suppose you had just learned to play the piano. Imagine that your family has to move to a new city and you have to leave your piano behind. People don’t like you in the new city because of  what you look like. How will you make yourself feel better? Mary Lou Williams, like Mozart, began playing the piano when she was four; at eight she became a professional musician. She wrote and arranged music for Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and was one of the most powerful women in jazz. This is the story of Mary Lou's childhood in Pittsburgh, where she played the piano for anyone who would listen.

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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

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What if you loved music more than anything? Suppose you had just learned to play the piano. Imagine that your family has to move to a new city and you have to leave your piano behind. People don’t like you in the new city because of  what you look like. How will you make yourself feel better? Mary Lou Williams, like Mozart, began playing the piano when she was four; at eight she became a professional musician. She wrote and arranged music for Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and was one of the most powerful women in jazz. This is the story of Mary Lou's childhood in Pittsburgh, where she played the piano for anyone who would listen.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618959747
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 01/18/2010
Edition description: Thirteenth Edition
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 8.70(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile: AD690L (what's this?)
Age Range: 6 - 9 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Ann Ingalls and Maryann Macdonald are sisters and lifelong music lovers. Ann lives in Kansas City, and Maryann lives in New York. This is Ann's first book, and Maryann's twenty-second.

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