Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
By: Engle, Margarita [author.]
Contributor(s): Lo¿¿pez, Rafael [illustrator.]
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TextPublisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780544102293; 0544102290Subject(s): Drummers (Musicians) -- Juvenile fiction | Dance music -- Juvenile fiction | Sex role -- Juvenile fiction | Cuba -- History -- 1909-1933 -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Picture books for children.DDC classification: Fic Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical reference.Awards: Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2016 | Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2016Summary: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Includes bibliographical reference.
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2016
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2016