Overview
- Colorful, stylized illustrations make historical and contemporary figures warm and engaging
- Biographies are written in a style that will appeal to younger readers, whether they are reading themselves or having an adult read to them
- Portraits are deliberately diverse along gender, racial, and geographic lines
- Diverse, relatable figures help kids see that composers include people who “look like me”
- Modern composers are also included, to show that composers are more than just historical figures
- The Skin You Live In, a teacher and parent favorite also illustrated by David Lee Csicsko, is now in its 16th printing