Pinfold, Levi.
Summary: A young boy named Jean has an imaginary friend, Django, who keeps getting him in trouble and eventually is "sent away," but whenever Jean plays the banjo he continues to feel close to Django. Inspired by the life of jazz musician Django Reinhardt; includes facts about his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction PinfoldHowley, Jonty
Summary: "Three talented animals--a crocodile playing a snare drum, a big brown bear with a bass, and a weasel with a banjo--form a traveling band to sing and play for the other animals in the woods"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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Summary: Danny, a rising rodeo star whose border collie, Banjo, has been wounded by neighbors, and Meg, who has a way with animals, come together to keep Banjo safe, aided by Danny's brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALLindbergh, Reeve.
Summary: A young girl describes all the things she likes about her grandmother, including growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2003
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Summary: Two small boys from an island village spend their days in a mango tree until one is swept away in a storm and wakes up in a new, unfamiliar land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers
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Summary: A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE RUNSingh, Sita
Summary: "Every summer, the branches of a little girl's favorite tree droops heavy with mangoes. And this year, she is finally old enough to help her family harvest them. Her brother shares a memory about his first time mango picking: his father holding him steady as he reached high above for the fruit. But when the girl climbs the tree, she becomes too dizzy. Then her grandma shares a mango memory:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SINSummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999