From Publishers Weekly
Two new titles recast well-known numbers. Straight from The Wizard of Oz, Over the Rainbow by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen pairs the timeless lyrics with gauzy watercolors by Julia Noonan (illus. of Mary Chapin Carpenter's Dreamland). Noonan imagines the narrator as a girl in denim overalls, dreaming of herself wearing a pink tutu and tiny gold crown doing a pas de deux with a toy kitten. Musical notation included. (June) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
Very few songs have taken hold of our hearts and imaginations the way "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz has. These lyrics, so evocative of light and color, have found their perfect match in the paintings of Maxfield Parrish. His works seem to reflect of the words on each page, and the result is a feeling of warmth, exuberance, and limitless possibilities.


Card catalog description
An illustrated version of the classic song from the movie "The Wizard of Oz."


From the Inside Flap
With the marriage of The Wizard of Oz's most beloved song and the iridescent paintings one of America's most beloved artists, comes Mary Tiegreen's beautifully designed Over the Rainbow, the fifth installment of Welcome's fabulously successful Art & Poetry series. Very few songs have taken hold of our hearts and imaginations the way "Over the Rainbow" has, stirring up wistfullness and a longing to be free. These lyrics, so evocative of light and color, have found their perfect match in the paintings of Maxfield Parrish. The paintings seem to generate a light of their own, reflecting off the words of each page, and the result is a feeling of warmth and exuberance that dreams "really do come true." Over the Rainbow, the latest volume in this wonderful series, unites E.Y. Harburg's lyrics, immortalized in The Wizard of Oz with the luminous artwork of Maxfield Parrish.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Very few songs have taken hold of our hearts and imaginations the way "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz has. These lyrics, so evocative of light and color, have found their perfect match in the paintings of Maxfield Parrish. His works seem to reflect of the words on each page, and the result is a feeling of warmth, exuberance, and limitless possibilities.

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was one of the most popular artists of the early decades of this century, with reproductions of his artwork finding their way into one fourth of all homes in America. E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896-1981) wrote more than 500 songs in the course of his career.

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