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Django / Bonnie Christensen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1596434228 (hbk.)
  • 9781596434226 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Django : world's greatest jazz guitarist [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML3930.R33 C57 2009
Awards:
  • Schneider Family Book Award, Young Children, 2010.
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.
Summary: Born into a traveling 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 perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze.
List(s) this item appears in: Schneider Family Book Award
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Juvenile Collection Juvenile Collection Albright College Library Juvenile Fiction and Non-Fiction Children's collection J 787.87 C554d 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002307856
Total holds: 0

"A Neal Porter book."

Includes bibliographical references and discography.

Born into a traveling 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 perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze.

Schneider Family Book Award, Young Children, 2010.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.

Schneider Family Book Award, Young Children, 2010.

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