Full name: Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten

Authors: Laura Veirs, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781452148571 1452148570

This lyrical, loving picture book from popular singer-songwriter Laura Veirs and debut illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh tells the story of the determined, gifted, daring Elizabeth Cotten—one of the most celebrated American folk musicians of all time. Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere—from the sunny beaches of California to the rolling hills of England—knew her music. Similar books: Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee Watson Muddy by Michael Mahin For the Love of Music by Elizabeth Rusch Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio