Beverly Sills: America's Own Opera Star - Softcover

Kerby, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999379046 ISBN 13: 9780999379042

Publisher: MK Publications, 2017

Synopsis

By the time she was four, Beverly, or “Bubbles” was performing in public. She learned to sing opera by imitating her mother’s records. When her soon to be voice teacher heard Bubbles sing, she laughed out loud. But the teacher agreed to take Bubbles, and the rest is history. At a time when virtually all major opera singers were European, Bubbles became internationally famous because of her spectacular soprano voice and her sparkling and bubbly personality. Now back in print, this new edition, revised and updated, will enchant readers seeking narrative biographies.

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About the Author

Mona Kerby writes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for children.
Her 38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation won the Minnesota Maud Hart LovelaceAward. Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch won the California Young ReadersAward and the Vermont Red Clover Award and received the Parents' ChoiceSilver Honor Award. See monakerby.com for more information. for more information.

Review

"How Brooklyn-born Belle Miriam Silverman became the famous opera star,Beverly Sills, is a fascinating story. This biography is short, lively,and easy to read. It covers a remarkable amount of ground, from Bubbles' appearance as a regular on "Uncle Bob's Rainbow Hour," a 1930s radioshow, to her successful stint as General Director of the New York CityOpera . . . [Kerby has the] ability to reflect in words thevivaciousness that Sills brought to her performances." School Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: MK Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0999379046
• ISBN 13: 9780999379042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62