The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger

The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger
ISBN-10
0062368257
ISBN-13
9780062368256
Series
The Golden Thread
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
48
Language
English
Published
2018-04-17
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Author
Colin Meloy

Description

With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style and stunning cut-paper illustrations, Colin Meloy and Nikki McClure pay tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song. Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music. Born into a family of traveling musicians, Pete picked up his first instrument at age seven. From then on, music was his life, whether he was playing banjo for soldiers during World War II, rallying civil rights activists and war protesters with songs such as “We Shall Overcome,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” and “If I Had a Hammer,” or leading environmental efforts to clean up the Hudson River. For decades, Pete Seeger’s messages of universal understanding and social and environmental justice inspired generations—and have left a lasting legacy.

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