{"product_id":"victor-the-violinist-hardcover","title":"Victor the Violinist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Hilton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Christmas Day, 1919, a boy was born to a family with almost nothing. One person saw what he could become.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor's mother sang and played the piano. His father left for the iron factory before the sun came up. There was love in that house, and music in it, and not much else. Then his Aunt Julie came home from overseas. She saw something nobody else had noticed yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe gave him a violin. His first attempt was a screech. \u003c\/strong\u003eHe put it down. He said no. \u003cem\u003eThen he picked it up again. \u003c\/em\u003eAnd years later a package arrived, with a sealed envelope taped to its side. On it, in his aunt's handwriting, four words: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Victor turns 21.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHO THIS BOOK IS FOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe grandparent\u003c\/strong\u003e who wants a gift still on a shelf in ten years, not in a cupboard by February.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe parent\u003c\/strong\u003e of a child three weeks into music lessons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe aunt, uncle or godparent\u003c\/strong\u003e looking for a gift that gets remembered.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sunday school teacher or church librarian\u003c\/strong\u003e who needs a read-aloud.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe music teacher\u003c\/strong\u003e with a pupil who has stopped practising.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnd the child\u003c\/strong\u003e just handed something they do not yet know how to use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIVE BOOKS IN ONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Christmas book.\u003c\/strong\u003e It opens on Christmas Day and Christmas runs through it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA music book.\u003c\/strong\u003e For any child learning violin or piano, resisting practice this week.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA gift book about a gift.\u003c\/strong\u003e What that violin became is the whole story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly Christian.\u003c\/strong\u003e A family who pray and keep going. Nothing preached.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGently historical.\u003c\/strong\u003e An immigrant household in 1919, a concert hall in 1944.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT YOU ARE GETTING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSixty pages\u003c\/strong\u003e with original full-colour illustration throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWritten entirely in rhyme\u003c\/strong\u003e, built to be read aloud.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAges 4 to 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Read to a five-year-old, read by an eight-year-old.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne sitting.\u003c\/strong\u003e Long enough to matter, short enough to finish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA story that ends with a letter\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a question the reader answers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost picture books are read once and shelved. This one comes back, at Christmas, then again when a child first picks up an instrument, and once more years later when they understand what Aunt Julie actually did. \u003cem\u003eChildren hear the story. Adults hear something else in it. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA violin. An aunt who believed. And a letter that waited twenty-one years to be opened.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52121746997543,"sku":"9781972121153","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/fO4SdNqz2x9781972121153.webp?v=1789772004","url":"https:\/\/theluminousbookshop.com\/es\/products\/victor-the-violinist-hardcover","provider":"The Luminous Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}