Stars: ***1/2
Paintings by Christ Soentpiet
Sleeping Bear Press (2008)
Children’s Nonfiction
This is the story of how the”Happy Birthday To You” song came to be. I thought this would make a good read.
It explains how the original artist wasn’t credited for quite a while and the tune was originally used for other songs, like a good morning song for school.
Christ Soentpiet did the illustrations which are beautiful paintings that are quite life like. I found myself visualizing the past, and these women in the paintings actually singing the song.
Links of Interest: How to use ‘Happy Birthday To You’ with students, Margot Theis Raven,
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* I took this book out of the library.
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