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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay (2016)di Susan Hood
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book could be used as a read aloud for primary aged students. This book is about a young girl named Ada, who lives in Cateura, Paraguay, which is the main garbage dump for Paraguay. Ada's grandmother signs her up to start taking violin lessons, and from this, Ada goes on to learn violin and becomes a violinist that travels the world to play in concerts and with bands. I would use this book in my classroom as a nonfiction read aloud and as a way to bring awareness to other people's lives around the world. This book also shows perseverance and growth when there is no hope, and the importance of believing in yourself. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a vision. An ingenious idea. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriNessun genere Sistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)784.206The arts Music Instruments and instrumental ensembles and their music [formerly: Voice and vocal music] Full symphony orchestra [formerly: Complete choral works]Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Cateura is, literally, “a town made of trash.” The dump for the capital city of Asunción, Cateura receives 1,500 tons of trash daily, and 2,500 families subsist there, with generations of gancheros scouring for recyclable materials like cardboard and plastic. Favio Chávez, an environmental engineer assigned to Cateura to teach the recyclers safety methods, began offering music lessons to children, to help keep them safe. He enlisted a carpenter’s expertise in creating instruments from salvaged materials. “They transformed oil drums into cellos, water pipes into flutes, and packing crates into guitars!” Hood’s narrative focuses on talented Ada Ríos, whose years of dedicated practice on a metal-and-wood violin parallel the orchestra’s ascendant fame in Paraguay and internationally. “Ada and her friends flew on their first airplane, stayed in their first hotel…and saw sights they never imagined.” Comport’s complex, digitally enhanced collages combine acrylics, drawing, and layered typographic elements, conveying both the oppressive omnipresence of garbage and the functional beauty of the handcrafted instruments. For a spread celebrating the music’s transforming effects, Comport renders musicians and gancheros in silhouette against the landfill, bathed in sunset pinks and golds.
Pair with the suggested video links to experience the music of a remarkable, resilient cultural community. (author’s note, websites, videos, quotation sources, photographs) (Informational picture book. 4-8)
-Kirkus Review