Children's Picture Book about violin maker or violin. Read in 1970s, before 1982.

[scherzo♫]

Children's book about violin maker or violin
- probably shelved as picture book
- beautifully illustrated
- borrowed from Inglewood CA public library in '70s
- story located in Italy, perhaps Cremona

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I See a Song? From 1973.
"Brightly colored forms represent music played by the violin."

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

E.T.A. Hoffmann has a story called "The Cremona Violin." I don't know what age range it's intended for - perhaps it was adapted into a picture book?

[scherzo♫]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I See a Song? From 1973.
"Brightly colored forms represent music played by the violin.""

Not I See a Song. Eric Carle was one of my daughter's favorites, but the illustrations in the violin book were muted dreamy colors, closer to realism that Carle's collages.

[scherzo♫]

Lobstergirl wrote: "E.T.A. Hoffmann has a story called "The Cremona Violin." I don't know what age range it's intended for - perhaps it was adapted into a picture book?"

Not The Cremona Violin.

[scherzo♫]

bkl wrote: "Early or late 70s? Or do you recall a specific year?"

Most likely between 1974 and 1979, before 1982.

[scherzo♫]

I think the story involved making a violin.

The book was about 12" x 10".

[scherzo♫]

Did not find on these lists:
624 books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
543 books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
205 books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
39 books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

[scherzo♫]

Illustrations are somewhat similar in style to:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/corre...

[scherzo♫]

Did not find on pages 1-100 or 2000-1950 of Picture Book shelves list:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[laurenpie]

Other than publication date, The Moon's Revenge fits. Main character does make a violin, and the illustrations are beautiful. Published in 1987. He ends up, though, with a beautiful violin from the ocean, which then replaces the home-made one he had practiced on for many years. Lovely fantasy story.

[scherzo♫]

laurenpie wrote: "Other than publication date, The Moon's Revenge fits. Main character does make a violin, and the illustrations are beautiful. Published in 1987. He ends up, though, with a beautiful violin from t..."

The Moon's Revenge does look beautiful, but it's not the book I remember. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check the Gorgeous Picture Books list that's linked for that book page.

[scherzo♫]

Not on the Gorgeous Picture Books list (8 books).

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

[scherzo♫]

Did not find on these lists:

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[Ann aka Iftcan]

Wow pjreads. You've really been being busy. :o)

Still, keep your toes crossed (not your fingers, you need those to bump up the thread here) and keep trying. Sooner or later that someone special will join the group and go, "Oh, I know that book."

[Tab]

Pjreads, do you remember anything else about the plot? Was this a magical violin? Was the story a fantasy, fairy tale, etc? Remember any other characters?

[scherzo♫]

Mostly I remember the pictures.

I think the story was about ordinary people and an ordinary violin. It may have been historical fiction about a luthier similar to Stradivarius, the Amatis, or the Guarneris.

Probably higher age level than a picture book, because some pages may have had a paragraph of text.

I think many pages had full-page illustrations.

[laurenpie]

Sounds like a wonderful book! :)

[scherzo♫]

Not any of the 34 children's books listed on this blog:
http://violinandbooks.wordpress.com/t...

Violin books Listopia now has 106 books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

[Tab]

I can't seem to find any inner pics and the description is not quite fitting, but I will throw this out there

The Violin-Maker's Gift

[scherzo♫]

That's not the one I'm looking for, but it's an excellent book that won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award, 1981.

Thanks for helping me hunt.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

night music -- bring on the clowns ♫, are you still looking for this?

[scherzo♫]

I would still like to find it, but haven't been actively looking for awhile.

Thanks

[Ann aka Iftcan]

night music -- bring on the clowns ♫ if you bump your thread up periodically--the usual time period is 30 to 90 days--you will have a better chance at getting it found, since new members will see it, and members that only touch base occasionally will also see it.

[Ayshe]

Is it definitely set in Italy? I found Penny Tunes and Princesses - Myron Levoy but it is about Hungarian violinist in America.

[scherzo♫]

Definitely Italy. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Still looking now?

[scherzo♫]

It's okay to close this thread.

I'd still like to find this book, but it doesn't look likely.

[Kris]

We keep threads open as long as people are interested in finding the book. We encourage you to bump the thread every 30+ days, since new members join all the time.

[scherzo♫]

Kris wrote: "We keep threads open as long as people are interested in finding the book. We encourage you to bump the thread every 30+ days, since new members join all the time."

thank you

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Still looking?

[bookel]

78 page picture book (worldcat.org)
The Violin, from the Story by George Pastic and Andrew Welsh
by Robert Thomas Allen
https://www.librarything.com/work/749...
Gorgeous cover.

[Bargle]

Link The Violin, from the Story by George Pastic and Andrew Welsh.

[scherzo♫]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Still looking?"

yes

[scherzo♫]

Bargle wrote: "Link The Violin, from the Story by George Pastic and Andrew Welsh."

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like a beautiful book about a boy learning to play the violin.

The book I'm looking for is about violin maker(s).

[Rainbowheart]

Turi's Poppa has a violin maker and Italy, but at 186 pages, it might be too long.

[bookel]

This is a chapter book.
Guarneri: story of a genius by Leonard Wibberley
Juvenile fiction from title page.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26489...

Italian violin makers by Karel Jalovec.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL72615...
Non-fiction from a quick glance. Several mentions of Cremona if that helps identify whom your book was about.

[scherzo♫]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Turi's Poppa has a violin maker and Italy, but at 186 pages, it might be too long."

Thanks for the suggestion.

The book I'm looking for is set in Italy.

[scherzo♫]

bookel wrote: "This is a chapter book.
Guarneri: story of a genius by Leonard Wibberley
Juvenile fiction from title page.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26489......"

Thanks for the suggestions.

The book I'm looking for is a large size (9x12?) children's book with colorful pictures that fill the page. I'm not sure how much text was on the page, more than one sentence I think, maybe one paragraph?

I read this to my daughter in the 70's so I don't remember details.