When a piano which loves to play "symphonies" but refuses to practice is sold for use as a storage chest, it escapes with the help of a child and plunges into the sea.
Explains how to read music and play beginning piano, providing exercises, and introduces important composers and performers and the piano's inner workings.
When a young boy goes to stay with his grandmother, who has twisted her ankle, he teaches her about baseball and she inspires him to enjoy playing the piano.
Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.
Presents an introduction to the piano, in simple text with illustrations, explaining the invention of the piano in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the late seventeenth century and describing the other events that were occurring around the world at the same time.
Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.
