Becoming Billie Holiday

C Weatherford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2022
Wordsong (Verlag)
978-1-63592-557-9 (ISBN)

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The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford's 50-plus books include the three Caldecott Honor winners: FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE: Voice of Freedom; FANNIE LOU HAMER: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and MOSES: When Harriett Tubman Let Her People to Freedom. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for BECOMING BILLIE HOLIDAY.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 239 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Gedichte / Lieder
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
ISBN-10	1-63592-557-6 / 1635925576
ISBN-13	978-1-63592-557-9 / 9781635925579
Zustand	Neuware