LITTLE PIANO GIRL launch party highlights
Family, friends and fans joined authors Ann Ingalls and Maryann Macdonald to celebrate the release of Little Piano Girl. Reading Reptile played host to the event on February 13. Congratulations!
Date: February 10, 2010
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: Ann Ingalls, Little Piano Girl, reading reptile
Author: Laura Manivong
Tags: Ann Ingalls, Little Piano Girl, reading reptile
Little Piano Girl Launch Party
Celebrating the life of jazz legend Mary Lou Williams, with authors Ann Ingalls and Maryann Macdonald, and live music from Mark Lowrey
2010 is the Centennial of Mary Lou Williams’ birth, and Reading Reptile will host an evening with Ann Ingalls and Maryann
Macdonald, co-authors of THE LITTLE PIANO GIRL, the newly released and beautifully illustrated picture book biography commemorating the life of Mary Lou Williams.
-Saturday, February 13th, from 6 – 8 pm
-Reservations requested: 816.7530441
-Copies available for purchase at the event (No books purchased outside the Reading Reptile will be admitted to the event.)
Ann Ingalls to speak at Plaza Library
Join us January 29 at the Plaza Library to hear Heartlander Anne Ingalls talk about Little Piano Girl. Ann and her sister, Maryann McDonald, wrote the biography of jazz legend Mary Lou Williams, who had her first public performance at the age of six and went on to write and arrange music for Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. The talk starts at 7 pm.
Date: November 2, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Ann Ingalls, biography, Little Piano Girl, Mary Lou Williams, nonfiction, picture books
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: Ann Ingalls, biography, Little Piano Girl, Mary Lou Williams, nonfiction, picture books
Ann Ingalls’ The Little Piano Girl
The Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, have invited Ann Ingalls and Maryann Macdonald to sign books at a celebration for the centennial of jazz great Mary Lou Williams’ birth.
The sisters’ labor of love, The Little Piano Girl, is illustrated by Giselle Potter and will be published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children in January 2010. Future signing include The Lincoln Center in New York City and the American Jazz Museum and the Plaza Library in Kansas City. The Reading Reptile will host a celebration in February.
