"Nannerl, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's sister, was a musical prodigy who longed to be a famous composer. Blending historical details with fiction, Nickel tells the story of a girl whose talent, despite the restrictions of the time, manages to flourish. Author's notes included" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997.

Nannerl Mozart’s twelfth-birthday wish is to become a famous composer. She’s already considered a brilliant musician, touring eighteenth-century Europe with her little brother, Wolfgang, and playing for queens and kings in the great courts. But Papa doesn’t take her seriously as a composer because she is a girl, Mama usually has a list of chores for her to do, and Wolfi manages to steal everyone’s attention. But Nannerl is not ready to give up her dream. Can she defy expectations and take control of her musical destiny?

Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird's-eye view of the western landscape, nature's glorious playground. Nickel's experimental verses are perfectly complimented by Kathy Thiessen's black-and-white etchings, making this ideal for any young Canadian -- Prairie-dweller, would-be poet, or otherwise.

"A picture book biography about Maria Anna Mozart, Wolfgang's sister and a secret composer"--

An unforgettable tale of two lonely girls, Catharina Bach and Hannah Waters, born centuries apart, who change each other's lives.

As an intricate choral music lovingly arranged, this gathering makes manifest a rich community of accomplished voices, a community whose immediate concerns are various, whose informing circumstances diverge, but whose common chord remains apprehensible and compelling--a long devotion to peace attaining to a concurrent devotion to beauty. --Scott Cairns.