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Aïda, Leotyne Price (story adaptation), Leo and Diane Dillon (illustrators)
The Bat Boy and His Violin, Gavin Curtis (author) and E.B. Lewis (illustrator)
Because, Mo Willems (author), Amber Ren (illustrator)
Before There Was Mozart, Lesa Cline-Ransome (author) and James E. Ransome (illustrator)
The Big Violin, Teresa Cheung (author), Nathan Moncao (illustrator)
Black Pianists of Classical Music Born Between 1838 & 1933, Nevilla Ottley
Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite, Anna Harwell Celenza (author), Don Tate (illustrator)
Electric Angel, Nanci Mortimer (author) and Della Wells (illustrator)
Ellington Was Not a Street, Ntozake Shange (author), Kadir Nelson (illustrator)
Joseph Bologne Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Amélie-Mai Wright (age 8)
Kinderlute, Cameren Anai Williams, Musiq Williams, Eusebius Williams (authors)
Leotyne Price: Opera Superstar, Sylvia B Williams (author)
The Misfortune of a Wise Tortoise (An African Folktale) for organ and narrator, Godwin Sadoh (composer)
Music Makers: Michael Morgan, Dina A Bartello (author) and Freeman C. Simon (illustrator)
My Family Plays Music, Judy Cox (author) and Elbrite Brown (illustrator)
The Other Mozart, Hugh Brewster (author) and Eric Velasquez (illustrator)
Piano Starts Here, Robert Andrew Parker (author and illustrator)
Some Famous Black Composers Born Before 1850, Nevilla E. Ottley
Treemonisha (from the opera by Scott Joplin), Angela Shelf Medearis, Scott Joplin (authors), Michael Bryant (illustrator)
Vio’s Violin, Kenesha Ryce (author) and Kevin Jones (illustrator)
When Marian Sang, Pam Munoz Ryan (author) and Brian Selznick (illustrator)
Who is Florence Price?, Students Of the Special Music School Kaufman Music Center (authors)
