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Veirs, Laura

Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten

48 pp. | Chronicle | January, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4521-4857-1 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. As a child, African American folk musician Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987) taught her left-handed self to play guitar; then "time swept Libba up," and she stopped playing. As a grandmother, she's serendipitously hired as a housekeeper by the Seeger family, who rediscovered her talent and helped Cotten bring her music to the world. Fazlalizadeh's 
art, rendered in graphite with feathery digital coloring, complements Veirs's unpretentious prose exquisitely. Websites.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018

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