Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music

srlombard — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:23:05 +0000

Synopsis:

Imagination allows you the freedom to be who you want to be and do what you love to do, even when society dictates otherwise. No one knows this better than Drum Dream Girl. In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.

Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule—until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.

Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba’s traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.

Source: http://hmhyoungreadersblog.com/kids/picturebookparade-beats-on-with-drum...