Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music /
poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael LoÌpez.
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Pura BelpreÌ Illustrator Award.
9780544102293
2014015056
Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction. Dance music--Fiction. Sex role--Fiction.