Music plants hope

We Flipped the Script! -or-
Tonnye Becomes a Guest on her own Show!

Join us for the turned tables, the flipped script!  I invited a couple of dear PBJamz friends and supporters to come and interview ME for PBJamz!  It was so special sitting on the other side of the questions -- and of course Rekha and Steena came up with some amazing questions!  We had a blast sitting down and sharing all things "Music Plants Hope".  We might have shed a tear or two and we definitely shared some belly laughs!  Come along for the conversation! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! (As you can tell from this picture! :-D)

And, PS, if you missed it, go back and check out Steena's episode for Lupita's Brown Ballet Slippers. Rekha has been a guest multiple times. You can search the archives and find them all. Her most recent episode was That Swingin' Sound.

Music Plants Hope

Music Plants Hope is a lyrical retelling of the concert for plants in Barcelona during the Pandemic. Eugenio Ampudia had an idea -- he filled the Liceu Theater with 2,292 plants and had the UceLi String Quartet to play a piece by Puccini (Crisantemi or Chrysanthemums) to the audience made up only of plants. The prologue and epilogue give the facts of the story, while the main text and glorious illustrations by Natalia Bruno explore the idea of the interaction of the plants and the music through flowing lyrical text and enchanting, colorful, fantastical images of nature.

​​A Little Jam. . .(The Music Kind)

This is the version of the concert that started it all. The one I watched over and over as I was writing Music Plants Hope. I found it beautiful and fascinating -- and inspiring. You can watch it and decide for yourself.  I believe it to be a testament to our human need for art as well as a way of thumbing our nose at the pandemic as if to say, "You cannot stop art and music. We'll play to an audience of plants or reach out via computer or whatever we have to do, but we will keep making music and art, because we are human and it is like breathing.  It is innate and important and indomitable.

Teachers' Jam

Writers' Jam

Links, More Fun, Extensions for Families and Everyone!

Pinterest board with all sorts of things that relate to the book: information about plants, worksheets and crafts about the parts of plants, experiments with plants and music, Puccini, Crisantemi, string quartets, string instruments, the Liceu Theater, Eugenio Ampudia, Barcelona and more.

YouTube playlist with the interview and other interviews, various versions of Crisantemi, the concert for plants, music for plants, research about music and plants, parts of a plant, music activities for kids, string quartet info, information about Puccini, Eugenio Ampudia, and more!

Virtual tour of Liceu Theater
Liceu Website

Puccini Museum, Lucca, Italy website

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Guest Links and Giveaway

The book image is linked to the Goodreads page where you can read reviews, find links to purchase and more.  The headshot is linked to my website's home page where you can explore tabs for the book and resources, media kit, social links, and more!

This is where I usually remind you of all the ways to support authors, and it's all true. I would definitely be very grateful if you could:

• request MUSIC PLANTS HOPE at your local library or bookstore.
• If you've read and enjoyed MUSIC PLANTS HOPE, I would very much appreciate positive reviews on Barnes & Noble and/or Goodreads and/or Amazon (after 5.26.26)
• Follow me on socials (You can find them on my Contact page), as well as Amazon and Goodreads.
• Purchase, if you're so inclined. Or, check it out from your local library
• Share the book with others who will enjoy it!

Thank you so much for any and all support. Links to pre-order (or order after 5/26/26) are on the Music Plants Hope page.

I'm happy to offer a winner's choice for my giveaway!

Simply leave a comment below by 11:59 PM ET on Wed., May 20 and I'll enter you in the drawing for your choice of prizes.

Thanks for joining us for another episode of PBJamz!