By Laura Veirs, Illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Chronicle Books, 2018 Picture book, non-fiction Ages 5-8, Grades K – 3 ISBN 10 : 1452139962 Additional Format: e-book Honors: Junior Library Guild Selection
Libba celebrates the life and accomplishments of acclaimed African-American singer-songwriter and folk musician, Elizabeth Cotten, whose childhood curiosity and determination ignited a lifelong love of music and desire to create. Left-handed, she taught herself to play her older brother’s guitar by strumming the instrument upside down and backwards. She wrote one of the most famous American folk songs of her era, Freight Train , when she was just eleven years old and performed the song (and many other origi
This picture book biography is an infectious work of love and devotion by author and singer-songwriter Laura Veirs and artist-activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. A gentle, magical reminder to never give up, Libba will inspire and uplift early bloomers, late bloomers, and bloomers of every sort. – GA