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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Farmer, Bonnie, 1959-     Subjects     Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.     Blacks -- Juvenile fiction.     Blacks -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.     Jazz musicians, Black -- Juvenile fiction.     Pianists, Black -- Juvenile fiction.     Pianists -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Farmer, Bonnie, 1959-       by title:      Oscar lives next doo...       by call number:      FICTION FAR     Search the Web     Farmer, Bonnie, 1959-     Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.     Blacks -- Juvenile fiction.     Blacks -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.     Jazz musicians, Black -- Juvenile fiction.     Pianists, Black -- Juvenile fiction.     Pianists -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction.       MARC Display

Oscar lives next door : a story inspired by Oscar Peterson's childhood / written by Bonnie Farmer ; illustrated by Marie Lafrance. by Farmer, Bonnie, 1959- Owlkids Books Inc., c2015. Call #: FICTION FAR Subjects Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.   Blacks -- Juvenile fiction.   Blacks -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.   Jazz musicians, Black -- Juvenile fiction.   Pianists, Black -- Juvenile fiction.   Pianists -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction. ISBN:  9781771471046 (bound) 1771471042 (bound) Description:  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. Summary:  Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is history: Oscar went on to become an international jazz piano sensation. Oscar Lives Next Door is a fictional story inspired by these facts. The book imagines a next-door neighbor for Oscar named Millie, who gets into mischief with him but also appreciates his talents: Oscar hears music in everything, and Millie calls him a magician for the way he can coax melodies from his trumpet. Millie writes to Oscar during his long stay in the hospital for tuberculosis, and she encourages his earliest notes on the piano. Set in Oscar’s true childhood neighborhood of St-Henri, now known as Little Burgundy, the book provides a wonderful sense of this 1930s neighborhood where most of Montreal’s Black working class population lived. Detailed digital illustrations make the community’s culture and music almost tangible. The book concludes with a page of informational text about the author’s own connection to Little Burgundy and a short biography of the jazz legend. Genre:  Canadian fiction, Juvenile. School age picture book. Other authors:  Lafrance, Marie. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Sackville Public Library School Age Picture Books - Black Collection FICTION FAR Childrens Books Item being held   Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library School Age Picture Books - Black Collection FICTION FAR Childrens Books Checked out Jul 11, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library School Age Picture Books - Black Collection FICTION FAR Childrens Books Transit Request   Add Copy to MyList

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