Book Description
Realizing that he is different from other wood thrushes, Willie sets out on his own and becomes famous when he creates his own songs to accompany a flautist who is his devoted friend.
Author : Norman Rockwell
Publisher : Countryman Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780936399614
Realizing that he is different from other wood thrushes, Willie sets out on his own and becomes famous when he creates his own songs to accompany a flautist who is his devoted friend.
Author : Almira Astudillo Gilles
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781600602375
Willie's father tells him there is something special in an old coconut bank brought from the Philippines, but Willie is embarrassed to take it to school for a contest, especially since he knows that one of his classmates will make fun of him.
Author : Willie Morris
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The story of the author's life, first in Mississippi, then going to school in Texas, and then writing in New York.
Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062193651
In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and insights from family, bandmates, and close friends. Rare family pictures, beautiful artwork created by his son, Micah Nelson, and lyrics to classic songs punctuate these charming and poignant memories. A road journal written in Willie Nelson's inimitable, homespun voice and a fitting tribute to America’s greatest traveling bard, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die—introduced by another favorite son of Texas, Kinky Friedman—is a deeply personal look into the heart and soul of a unique man and one of the greatest artists of our time, a songwriter and performer whose legacy will endure for generations to come.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9780618496402
Relates the familiar nursery rhyme of a boy who runs through the town checking to see that all children are in bed.
Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 030771649X
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.
Author : Libba Moore Gray
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689831058
In this thoughtful epistolary picture book, a white woman fondly remembers the black housekeeper who raised her in the time of segregation and reflects on how the world has changed. Fifty years have passed since Miss Elizabeth was a girl, but she still remembers Willie Rudd, the black housekeeper who helped raise her. She remembers the feel of sitting in Willie Rudd’s lap while the housekeeper sang to her. And she remembers how Willie Rudd scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees. What would Miss Elizabeth say to Willie Rudd if she were alive today? She decides to write her a letter telling her how things would be different. Now Willie Rudd would come in the front door—not the back. She would ride in the front of the bus with Miss Elizabeth, and they could sit together at the movies. The two of them would have a wonderful time. And in her heartfelt letter, Miss Elizabeth has the chance to tell Willie Rudd something she never told her while she was alive—that she loved her.
Author : Willie Mosconi
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1453295267
A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal). Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter of balls downstairs in the family pool hall, and when his father wasn’t around, he would climb onto an apple crate to practice his shots. When his dad started locking up the balls and cue, young Willie improvised with potatoes and a broom handle. By the time he was 7 years old, he was good enough to play against Ralph Greenleaf in a match billed as “The Child Prodigy vs. The World Champion.” It was the start of a magnificent career that would include an unprecedented 15 world championships and the record for most consecutive balls run without a miss: 526. Nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards,” Mosconi was instrumental in popularizing pool in America, serving as a consultant for iconic films such as The Hustler and The Color of Money and facing off against the famed hustler Minnesota Fats in 2 celebrated matches. Cowritten with journalist Stanley Cohen, Willie’s Game is the colorful, captivating autobiography of an illustrious champion who lifted his sport to new heights and played by one simple rule: If you don’t miss, you don’t have to worry about anything else.
Author : Ted Allan
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780140311600
SUMMARY: Son of a squirrel and a mouse, Willie, resident of an apartment house wall, links,the lives of two neighbouring families in a very unusual way.
Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316403563
Willie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post). "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. It's a story of restlessness and the purity of the moment and living right. Of my childhood in Abbott, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest, from Nashville to Hawaii and all the way back again. Of selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias while hosting radio shows and writing song after song, hoping to strike gold. It's a story of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms, with a musical sound track ripping right through it. My life gets lived on the road, at home, and on the road again, tried and true, and I've written it all down from my heart to yours. Signed, Willie Nelson.