Django :
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TextPublication details: New York : Roaring Brook Press, c2009, 2010Description: 1 v. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)ISBN: 9781596436961; 1596436964Subject(s): Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953 -- Juvenile literature | Guitarists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Jazz musicians -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literatureSummary: Born into a travelling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perserverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze. Bonnie Christensen's gorgeous oil paintings and jazzy, syncopated text perfectly depict the man and his music.
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| JB .M647 2018 Anne Frank / | JB .P451 2020 Itzhak : a boy who loved the violin / | JB .P778 2007 Who was Marco Polo? / | JB .R369 2012 Django : | JB .S718 2018 Turning pages : | JB .T535 2020 Greta Thunberg Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | JB 323.092 .M435 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. The Fight for Freedom |
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Born into a travelling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perserverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze. Bonnie Christensen's gorgeous oil paintings and jazzy, syncopated text perfectly depict the man and his music.
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