Details

Subject(s)

• Novels in verse [Browse]
• Holiday, Billie 1915-1959—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• African Americans—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Novels in verse—Juvenile poetry [Browse]

Ill

• Cooper, Floyd [Browse]

Illustrator

• Cooper, Floyd [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Children's poetry—2008 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Biographies—2008 [Browse]
• Dust jackets (Binding)—2008 [Browse]

Summary note

Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Awards

Honor, Coretta Scot King Award--Medallion on dust jkt.

Contents

• Intro: what shall I say?
• Why was I born?
• Love me or leave me
• My first impression of you
• How could you?
• One, two button your shoe
• Missa cantata/sung mass
• Left alone
• Say it isn't so
• Eeny meeny miney mo
• (You ain't gonna bother me) no more
• Practice makes perfect
• Ghost of yesterday
• Don't worry 'bout me
• Sailboat in the moonlight
• Havin' myself a time
• Guilty
• Gloomy sunday
• It's a sin to tell a lie
• God bless the child
• Back in your own backyard
• Jeepers creepers
• I'll never be the same
• Darn that dream
• I hear music: the blues are brewin
• St. Louis blues by W.C. Handy, 1914
• It's the same old story
• But beautiful
• Ave Maria
• I wished on the moon
• If my heart could only talk
• Ain't nobody'sbusiness if I do
• No good man: I'm a fool to want you
• I'm painting the town red
• Trav'lin' light
• You go to my head
• Trav'lin all alone
• Bridge: I cover the waterfront
• Autumn in New York --^
• Let's call the whole thing off
• Love for sale
• Time on my hands
• Lady's back in town
• Do your duty
• Just one more chance
• I don't stand a ghost of a chance
• You gotta show me
• Spreadin' the rhythm around
• This is heaven to me
• Beyond the sea (La mer)
• A fine romance
• You let me down
• Matinee: American beauty
• But not for me
• I can't believe that you're in love with me
• How deep is the Ocean?
• Too marvelous for words
• Everything I have is yours
• That's life I guess
• Please don't talk about me when I'm gone
• Pennies from heaven
• When you're smiling
• Our love is different
• Just friends
• I get a kick out of you
• Body and soul
• Nice work if you can get it
• Matinee: Emperor Jones
• It's like reaching for the moon
• I can't face the music
• Twenty-Four hnours a day
• Sophisticated lady
• I'm in a low down groove
• Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
• I only havr eyes for you
• That's all I ask of you
• Them there eyes --^
• I'm a fool to want you
• I got it bad (and that ain't good)
• These'N'that'N'those
• Now they call it swing
• Things are looking up
• I've got a date with a dream
• Detour ahead
• Do you know what it means to Miss New Orleans?
• Foolin' myself
• One for my baby (and one more for the road)
• Moonlight in Vermont
• Please don't do it in here
• I don't know if I'm coming or going
• With thee I swing
• Big stuff
• The way you look tonight
• You turned the tables on me
• I gotta right to sing the blues
• I cried for you
• If dreams come true
• Coda: strange fruit.

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ISBN

• 9781590785072 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 159078507X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007051214

OCLC

191846391

RCP

H - S

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