MAO’S LAST DANCER: Autobiography, Children’s Books, & Movie
  MAO’S LAST DANCER:  Complete Autobiography   Mao’s Last Dancer, the autobiography of one of the world’s best ballet dancers, is among the most exciting and inspiring stories you will ever read about a performing artist. Li Cunxin, from a desperately poor northern Chinese province, is chosen at age 11 f

BAKE YOU A PIE: A Tasty Treat on Musical Styles
  Baby, don’t cry. It’s time for pie! Pies and music are the ultimate comfort food, for little ones of every ilk, in Bake You a Pie, a hardback book and CD by Ellen Olson-Brown & Brian Claflin, illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler. This story-song book with CD introduces some pretty silly pies,

Tom Paxton’s The Marvelous Toy
Legendary singer/songwriter and 2009 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tom Paxton teases a child’s imagination with his trademark children’s song, The Marvelous Toy, which he originally wrote for his own child. “It went zip! When it moved/And bop! When it stopped/And whirr! When it stood still. I never knew just what it was/And I guess I nev

B.B. King Sings the One Shoe Blues
  “Well, I woke up this morning. Couldn’t find my shoe. . .” We all get the blues, and we all lose our shoes. How universal is that! Humorist Sandra Boynton’s One Shoe Blues book and DVD stars B.B. King, his faithful guitar “Lucille,” and the Singing Sock Pup

Star Wars goes from classical film to classical music
C3PO with Luke Skywalker. From the Associated Press. Now this sounds like fun: a classical concert built around the music of Star Wars, complete with costumes, scenes from the movie, and commentary by Anthony Daniels, who played the C3PO. From the article: Featuring an 86-piece orchestra, a chorus of 80 singers, and selections from the six film scores Academy Award-winning