Nina's Waltz - Hardcover

Demas, Corinne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0531302814 ISBN 13: 9780531302811

Publisher: Scholastic, 2000

About this title

About the Author:

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of numerous books for children and adults, including THE LITTLEST MATRYOSHKA, ALWAYS IN TROUBLE, PIRATES GO TO SCHOOL, and SAYING GOODBYE TO LULU. She is a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and lives with her family in Western Massachusetts. Her website is www.corinnedemas.com.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-A hymn to the transforming power of music. Nina's father is the best fiddler she knows-"The best in the whole state. In the whole country." Early one morning, the two of them leave for a fiddle contest that offers a first prize of $200, money the family desperately needs. Her father plans to play "Nina's Waltz," a song that he wrote for her birthday. After several wasps sting his hand and he is unable to play, Nina overcomes her own stage fright and takes his place. Demas's quiet story is accompanied by soft acrylic paintings that echo the peaceful rural setting. Graceful musical notes appear throughout, dancing serenely across purple-and-blue skies. Pair this tale with Libba Moore Gray's energetic When Uncle Took the Fiddle (Orchard, 1999).
Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0531302814
• ISBN 13: 9780531302811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lanino Deborah