ELOISAS MUSICAL WINDOW

Inspired by stories from her mother's childhood, acclaimed author Margarita Engle and award-winning artist John Parra have crafted a vibrant picture book about a young girl and her family who find joy in the music flowing from outside their window.

Elo sa loves music, but with her family too poor to buy a radio, she can only hear it when rhythms and melodies drift through her open window. Birds and cats raise their voices in daily choruses, and songs from a neighbor's radio travel through the air. On the street below, children shake maracas and beat a steady rhythm on bongo drums and a lute, a cowbell, and un g iro round out the orchestra.

The sounds of her neighborhood are music enough for Elo sa, but when Mam gets sick and the family can't afford medicine, can la m sica soothe her the way it's always comforted Elo sa?