Bøker av Hannah Smith

Have you ever wondered what your golf balls do when not playing golf? Join me on this first adventure to find out a little more... Out of the safety of the warm, cosy box and into the depths of the cold, dark bag. How will Little Ball adapt to life and prepare himself for what awaits him?

Ten-year-old Johnny has had his treasured possessions, his computer, television and CD player, confiscated by his parents for his various misdemeanours. It is his half-term holiday and he resolves to do a good deed every day in order to persuade his parents to give him back his belongings. Unfortunately, his enthusiastic endeavours go disastrously, and sometimes hilariously, wrong. Johnny's intentions are always good but, no matter how hard he tries, he manages to upset the adults in his life, especially his mother's friend, the prim and proper Mrs Bridges. However, on the final day an opportunity arises that could change things for Johnny....

Hannah Smith (1849-1939) was a composer for children and an educator. In 1903 she published the popular Founders of Music, a series of biographical sketches of composers written for children. Written in 1898, when Wagner had been dead for only fifteen years, this is a concise history of music and instruments, aimed at the enthusiast. Covering broad subjects rather than concentrating on a few composers, Smith discusses not just the development of musical styles but also how musical notation developed, how the ear functions and how musical instruments produce the sounds they do. The tastes of the time are evident, particularly in the surprisingly detailed discussion of the Oratorio: however, the book allows us to see how music and its progress were regarded at the turn of the twentieth century, before composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg shook the musical establishment.