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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.Two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound, passion, innovation, and love of the arts that the renowned jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams shared with the world.Marys Ideais a stunning and transporting picture book about music and the creative process for readers ofTrombone Shortyand Chris Raschkas acclaimed books about musicians, includingCharlie Parker Played Be BopandMysterious Thelonious.
At the age of three, Mary Lou Williams taught herself how to play the piano. At the age of fifteen, she was considered a professional. An American jazz pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams wrote hundreds of compositions, recorded hundreds of songs, and wrote arrangements for musicians, including Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
Marys Ideais an exquisite picture book about Mary Lou Williams, an artist often overlooked in the canon of American music because of her gender and skin color. With a text full of rhythm and movement and illustrations that sing off the page, Chris Raschkas picture book is equal parts a biography and a celebration of the imagination and creative process.Marys Ideawill find readers in fans of Traci N. Todd and Christian RobinsonsNinaand Brian Selznick and Pam Muoz RyansWhen Marian Sang.
