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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of this book caught my attention because it has a woman singing gently with starts in the background and the letters of the title are written in gold.  Then the first page in the book does not have a title or copyright information; it is just a picture.  It is a beautiful picture all in go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75451634">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Independent Reading: 2-4th grade<br/><br/>Selznick captures the attention of possible readers with the dominant image of Marian Anderson singing her signature style with her eyes closed on the cover of Ryan’s book, “When Marian Sang”. He then continues his detailed illustrations that span ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81207575">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I did enjoy WHEN MARIAN SANG.  I did not know Marian Anderson before reading it and wish, now, I could meet her.  The plot and theme were similar to a dozen African-American Athlete stories that have been written or made into television shows and movies.  Yet this touched me more—perhaps it was th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78455961">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary: This book is a biography about Marian Anderson.  Marian is known for a concert she had on the Lincoln Memorial back in 1939.  The biography begins with Marian as a child.  She loved to sing and she always was humming while working.  Her voice stood out and was so “strong and velvety” th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76630966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful book, especially in the CD version.  Marian Anderson's moving story of overcoming hardship and bigotry is wonderfully told by Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick.  The harshness of the discrimination she experienced is not minimized, but the persistent goodwill in the story overwhelms the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76624655">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Grades: 2nd - 4th<br/><br/>This story serves as a welcome introduction for young readers to Marian Anderson. The author does a fantastic job of picking out the highlights of this talented singer's historic career. The text is very easy to read, and weaved into the main story are snippets of Anders...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81052699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As this skilled duo did with <em>Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride</em>, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick bring to life the story of yet another remarkable American woman, gifted black contralto Marian Anderson.<p>Undoubtedly one of America's greatest singers, Anderson was hardly known in her own country because of her race--music schools ignored her applications (&quot;We don't take colored!&quot;) and even after she began singing professionally, many venues only featured white performers. Ryan's well-paced story becomes especially poignant as she recounts Anderson's overwhelming success in Europe (&quot;one newspaper in Sweden called it 'Marian Fever' ... In Austria, the world-famous conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that what he had heard, one was privileged to hear only once in a hundred years&quot;). The book reaches its climax with a wordless, deep brown two-page spread from Selznick, a crowd's-eye view of Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, an historic concert that drew an integrated audience of over 75,000.<p>Ryan's simple, metered text (punctuated frequently by lyrics) captures the quiet drama of Anderson's story, and kids will especially identify with the confusion and frustration of young Marian. And as with the pair's previous collaboration, Selznick's rich illustrations ably convey the undeniable strength and courage of a talented, determined woman. (Ages 4 to 8) <em>--Paul Hughes</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[3rd-5th grade<br/><br/>Ryan wrote the story about how Marian Anderson was trying to be the best singer there was. The illustrations depicted how real pictures would have been in that time era with the sepia tones. a few small pages had slight color, and thats when Marian was performing. I believe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81113608">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[K-4 (Read aloud)<br/>Ryan does such a great job introducing the reality and history of Marian Anderson.  Before reading this book, I truly had no idea of who she was or what she did in history.  The way Ryan intertwines the lyrics of Anderson into the book lets us into the singer's life.  The text ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81141381">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson]]>
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    <![CDATA[As this skilled duo did with <em>Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride</em>, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick bring to life the story of yet another remarkable American woman, gifted black contralto Marian Anderson.<p>Undoubtedly one of America's greatest singers, Anderson was hardly known in her own country because of her race--music schools ignored her applications (&quot;We don't take colored!&quot;) and even after she began singing professionally, many venues only featured white performers. Ryan's well-paced story becomes especially poignant as she recounts Anderson's overwhelming success in Europe (&quot;one newspaper in Sweden called it 'Marian Fever' ... In Austria, the world-famous conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that what he had heard, one was privileged to hear only once in a hundred years&quot;). The book reaches its climax with a wordless, deep brown two-page spread from Selznick, a crowd's-eye view of Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, an historic concert that drew an integrated audience of over 75,000.<p>Ryan's simple, metered text (punctuated frequently by lyrics) captures the quiet drama of Anderson's story, and kids will especially identify with the confusion and frustration of young Marian. And as with the pair's previous collaboration, Selznick's rich illustrations ably convey the undeniable strength and courage of a talented, determined woman. (Ages 4 to 8) <em>--Paul Hughes</em></p></p>]]>
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