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Viorst's classic tale of a little boy who must accept the reality that "some days are like that, " when everything he does goes awry, is one of her most popular works. "The clever text shines."--"School Library Journal, " starred review. ALA Notable Children's Book. Full color.

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In this wittily illustrated, cleverly engineered book with moving parts, based on the popular play-rhyme, Zelinsky introduces all kinds of characters, slyly humorous subplots, and parts that go round and round, in and out, back and forth, up and down. Full color.

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An illustrated board book with words and music to a song celebrating all the things a child can make ten fingers do, including shutting them up tight and opening them wide.

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If the opera world is full of &#8220;intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,&#8221; then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world&#8217;s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history.<br><br>Fiedler chronicles the Met&#8217;s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America&#8217;s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Pl&#225;cido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler&#8217;s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies&#8212;Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager&#8212;and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met&#8217;s long and vibrant history, <b>Molto Agitato</b> is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.

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A dual portrait of the music team that shaped rock-and-roll music in the 1950s and 1960s describes their humble origins, their relationships with such performers as Elvis Presley and the Coasters, and their record-setting collaborative achievements.

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