The Green Piano
Item: 479872

The Green Piano

How Little Me Found Music

ISBN: 978-0-593-47987-2

by Roberta Flack with Tonya Bolden

This autobiographical picture book by the late, multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love. It all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green.

"Little me, in my Blue Ridge Mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina, living on a street named Velvet, then on one named Circle, I didn't have fancy-fine clothes, high-priced toys, or other richy-rich things. But I had music."

Growing up, Roberta dreamed of having her own piano. When her daddy spies an old, beat-up upright piano in a junkyard, he knows he can make his daughter's dream come true. He brings it home, cleans and tunes it, and paints it a grassy green. And soon the little girl has an instrument to practice on, and a new dream to reach for–one that will make her a legend in the music industry.

Here is a lyrical picture book–perfect for aspiring piano players and singers–that shares an intimate look at Roberta Flack's family and her special connection to music.

Hardcover, 40 pages