Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing
Title | Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2017-06-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250173760 |
Listen. There was nobody like Pete Seeger. Wherever he went, he got people singing. With his head thrown back and his Adam’s apple bouncing, picking his long-necked banjo or strumming his twelve-string guitar, Pete sang old songs, new songs, new words to old songs, and songs he made up. In this gorgeously written and illustrated tribute to legendary musician and activist Pete Seeger, author Leda Schubert highlights major musical events in Mr. Seeger's life as well important moments of his fight against social injustice. From singing sold-out concerts to courageously standing against the McCarthy-era finger-pointing, Pete Seeger's life is celebrated in this bold book for young readers with gorgeous illustrations by Raúl Colón. A Neal Porter Book This title has Common Core connections.
Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing
Title | Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-06-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781626722507 |
Listen. There was nobody like Pete Seeger. Wherever he went, he got people singing. With his head thrown back and his Adam’s apple bouncing, picking his long-necked banjo or strumming his twelve-string guitar, Pete sang old songs, new songs, new words to old songs, and songs he made up. In this gorgeously written and illustrated tribute to legendary musician and activist Pete Seeger, author Leda Schubert highlights major musical events in Mr. Seeger's life as well important moments of his fight against social injustice. From singing sold-out concerts to courageously standing against the McCarthy-era finger-pointing, Pete Seeger's life is celebrated in this bold book for young readers with gorgeous illustrations by Raúl Colón. A Neal Porter Book This title has Common Core connections.
Stand Up and Sing!
Title | Stand Up and Sing! PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Reich |
Publisher | Bloomsbury USA Childrens |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2017-03-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780802738127 |
Inspired by the rhythms of American folk music, this moving account of Pete Seeger's life celebrates his legacy, showing kids of every generation that no cause is too small and no obstacle too large if, together, you stand up and sing! Pete Seeger was born with music in his bones. Coming of age during the Great Depression, Pete saw poverty and adversity that would forever shape his worldview, but it wasn't until he received his first banjo that he found his way to change the world. It was plucking banjo strings and singing folk songs that showed Pete how music had the incredible power to bring people together. Using this gift throughout his life, Pete encouraged others to rally behind causes that mattered--fighting for Civil Rights, ending the Vietnam War, or cleaning up the Hudson River. For Pete, no challenge was too great, and what started out as a love for music turned into a lifetime of activism and change. His greatest talent--and greatest passion--would become an unforgettable part of American history.
Feeding the Sheep
Title | Feeding the Sheep PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2010-03-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374322961 |
From watching Mom shepherd, shear, spin, and knit, a little girl finds out just how her sweater is made.
Pete Seeger in His Own Words
Title | Pete Seeger in His Own Words PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Seeger |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2015-11-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317254287 |
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in a diverse array of publications but nowhere is his life story more personally chronicled than in these, his private writings, documents and letters stored for decades in his family barn. Pete Seeger: His Life in His Own Words, collects Seeger's letters, notes, published articles, rough drafts, stories and poetry - creating the most intimate picture yet available of Seeger as a musician, an activist and a family man. The book covers the passions, personalities and experiences of a lifetime of struggle - from the pre-WWII labour movement and the Communist Party, to Woody Guthrie, the Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the war in Vietnam. The portrait that emerges is not of a saint, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his time and his place.
Ballet of the Elephants
Title | Ballet of the Elephants PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2006-04-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781596430754 |
Describes the circus and the ballet of fifty elephants and dancers choreographed by George Ballanchine in 1942.
Who Was Pete Seeger?
Title | Who Was Pete Seeger? PDF eBook |
Author | Noel MacCarry |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2017-06-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1524785199 |
Pete Seeger was an American folk musician and social activist whose outspoken songs about freedom and justice got him blacklisted from radio and TV for years. Pete Seeger was still singing and playing the banjo for tens of thousands of fans even when he was at the age of ninety-four. Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Pete came from a family of musicians. Despite writing and singing folk songs that all of America knows, not many kids know his name. Why? Because his ties to the Communist Party got him banned from radio and television for many years! Well-known for his civil rights activism with Martin Luther King Jr., Seeger also spearheaded efforts that cleaned up the Hudson River and made it beautiful again. His best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn." In this easy-to-read biography from the New York Times best-selling series, Pete Seeger is revealed as not just a performer but as a champion for a better world and the eighty illustrations contained in the book help bring his story to life.