Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

As a little girl, Teresa Carre o loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too--the Civil War. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata--so famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa's music bring comfort to those who needed it most?

Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 11/19/2019
Binding Type: CD
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 4.80h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781974982394
Audience: Ages 4-8


Award: Pura Belpre Award - Winner

About the Author
Engle, Margarita: - Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse books, including the Newbery Honor winner The Surrender Tree, the PEN USA Award winner The Lightning Dreamer, and the verse memoir Enchanted Air, which has won many awards, including the inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award Honor and the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. Her books have also received multiple Pura Belpre Awards and Honors, Americas Awards, Jane Addams Awards and Honors, and more.Guerra, Almarie: - Almarie Guerra is a bilingual actor and voiceover artist based in Los Angeles. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the United States, she grew up reading incredible Latin American literature and developed a love for spoken word. Her professional experiences include audiobooks, theatre, commercials, television, and film, and she enjoys sharing her passion with listeners from all over the world. Her most important skill is being able to do a proper cartwheel.López, Rafael: - Rafael López, a four-time recipient of the Pura Belpre Illustrator Medal, grew up in Mexico City where he was immersed in the rich cultural heritage and native color of street life. To build community, López developed a mural style that works like a large scale paint by numbers. He has worked with hundreds of children, families, museums and community members to create murals that often reclaim blighted neighborhoods around the nation.