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Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | January, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-83600-8 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-93621-0 $20.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by James E. Ransome. Cline-Ransome gives a lively account of the great "mulatto" violinist. The text describes both what a man of his parentage could and couldn't do in eighteenth-century France and also his accomplishments. Ransome's lustrous mixed-media paintings illumine Boulogne's tropical Guadeloupe birthplace and distinguished Parisian venues with equal panache; he gives his subject an appealing intensity and intelligence that ripen into quiet authority.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011

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