Musical Tales & Tunes

Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano by Elizabeth Rusch, illus. by Marjorie Priceman

Jeanne M. Lee. A deaf/mute Cambodian girl learns to communicate through movement & dance.

One Man's Big, Bold, and Very, Very Loud Celebration of Peace by Alicia Potter, illus. by Mat Tavares.  

Jeanne M. Lee.  Cambodia, communicating without speech or hearing.  

 by Laban Carrick Hill.  

The fairy tale of the miller's daughter who gets help spinning straw into gold.  LaVar Burton visits the Renaissance festival where daily life is re-enacted and traveling performers.

In the book by Jeanne Lee, a young Cambodian girl, who cannot hear or speak, is invited to become a dancer in the king's court. She finds a way to communicate through the beauty of movement and dance.