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Title details for Dazzlin' Dolly by Suzanne Slade - Available

Dazzlin' Dolly

The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton

by Suzanne Slade
Suzy Jackson
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Dolly Parton is a little girl with a great big voice. She loves singing for her corncob doll and friends at church. Music fills her heart so plumb full that young Dolly starts writing her own tunes. Unable to afford a guitar, she strings up a broken
mandolin and plays for anyone she can corral—ducks, pigs, and her squallin' brothers and sisters. But Dolly longs for a real live audience to see and hear her perform.
When Dolly gets her first big break, she's scared to perform in front of hundreds of people. Will she summon up her courage and step out onto the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville?
Take a seat and join the audience to meet the dazzlin' Dolly Parton!

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  • Release date

    April 11, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798889561002
      • File size: 7573 KB
      • Duration: 00:15:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 3, 2022
      Free verse peppered with Southern dialect and colloquialisms reads like a ballad of Dolly Parton’s perseverance on her rise to stardom in this spirited picture book biography. As a child in a “newspaper-pasted-over-drafty-walls poor” family, Dolly Parton makes music with a homemade guitar and tin can microphone, but when her uncle books her on a live radio show, “big-dreamin’ Dolly/ FROZE—/ barely able to breathe.” Never one to back down, Dolly stands up to the “stage-fright bully” and fights for her dream of being a Nashville star. Slade’s alliterative, rhythmic lines dynamically resonate with the book’s subject. Focusing on Dolly, portrayed throughout wearing pops of red, Fotheringham’s digitally rendered artwork leaves backgrounds sketchy and muted for contrast, an apt visual metaphor for the biography’s “dazzlin’ ” subject. Back matter includes “More About Dolly.”
      Ages 7–10.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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