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Flowers for Sarajevo / [story written and narrated by] John McCutcheon ; book illustrated by Kristy Caldwell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [Atlanta, Georgia] : Peachtree Publishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017, ℗2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 audio disc (approximately 1 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : color illustrations, maps, music ; 25 x 29 cm)Content type:
  • spoken word
  • performed music
  • text
Media type:
  • audio
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781682630006
  • 1682630005
  • 9781561459438
  • 1561459437
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Track 1. Flowers for Sarajevo (7:48) -- Track 2. Flowers for Sarajevo author's note, historical note, and brief biography of Vedran Smailovic (7:30) -- Track 3. "Streets of Sarajevo" (4:42) -- Track 4. Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in Gm, arranged by Vedran Smailovic (5:11) -- Track 5. Conversation with John McCutcheon (26:09) -- Track 6. Flowers for Sarajevo : story narrated by John McCutcheon with page-turn prompts (8:27).
Music and narration by author with special guest performance by Vedran Smailovic; book illustrated by Kristy Caldwell.Summary: In 1992, a young boy whose father is away at war discovers, from their flower stall, the power of beauty and kindness in the wake of the bombing of Sarajevo.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Audiobook Children's Audiobook Main Library Children's Read-along McCutche John Checked out 06/11/2024 33111008748424
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Young Drasko is happy working with his father in the Sarajevo market. Then war encroaches. Drasko must run the family flower stand alone.

One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician's response, Drasko finds a way to help make Sarajevo beautiful again.

Inspired by real events of the Bosnian War, award-winning songwriter and storyteller John McCutcheon tells the uplifting story of the power of beauty in the face of violence and suffering. The story comes to life with the included CD in which cellist Vedran Smailović accompanies McCutcheon and performs the melody that he played in 1992 to honor those who died in the Sarajevo mortar blast.

Title from disc surface.

Compact disc.

Accompanying book published by Peachtree Publishers of Atlanta, Georgia, [2017].

Music and narration by author with special guest performance by Vedran Smailovic; book illustrated by Kristy Caldwell.

Track 1. Flowers for Sarajevo (7:48) -- Track 2. Flowers for Sarajevo author's note, historical note, and brief biography of Vedran Smailovic (7:30) -- Track 3. "Streets of Sarajevo" (4:42) -- Track 4. Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in Gm, arranged by Vedran Smailovic (5:11) -- Track 5. Conversation with John McCutcheon (26:09) -- Track 6. Flowers for Sarajevo : story narrated by John McCutcheon with page-turn prompts (8:27).

In 1992, a young boy whose father is away at war discovers, from their flower stall, the power of beauty and kindness in the wake of the bombing of Sarajevo.

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