NEWS

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Silence Sounds Simple
A Day in the Life of John Cage
Calkins Creek/Astra

Debuting July 7th!

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OPEN YOUR EARS
OPEN YOUR MIND
YOU ARE
THE MUSIC
THE NOISE
THE SILENCE

John Cage is a man who makes music with screws and bolts or rubber bands.
He’ll play a toy piano onstage in his suit. Why? To make people listen. To make them think.

As John goes through an ordinary day, he finds that it’s full of wonder and full of music.
He hears the seeds of music in everything from slippers scuffing on an old wooden floor and
water whooshing from a faucet to beeping horns and screeching brakes outside his window.
John even hears music in the silence of the forest as he harvests mushrooms.

Spend a day with John Cage.

Hear what he hears, see what he sees, and get caught up in the music he weaves from his experiences.

OPEN THIS BOOK
and
OPEN YOUR EARS!

A nonfiction picture book perfect for kids who love music and exploring the world of sounds around them.

With text by author Gary Golio and illustrations by artist Andrea D'Aquino.

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"A conceptually ambitious and visually arresting biography that encourages attentive listening
and frames curiosity as a disciplined intellectual stance."
School Library Journal, *starred review*