Beethoven Lives Upstairs

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Genre: Fiction; Juvenile Historical Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Uncles; Children: Kindergarten; Performing Arts - Music; Juvenile fiction; Biographical - European; Beethoven, Ludwig van; 1770-1827; Beethoven, Ludwig van,; Letters;

Average Review: 5 stars

Review: I am Beethoven! : A young Viennese boy named Christoph happens to have the greatest composer who ever lived as a boarder in his mother's house. Set in 1822, this nice re-telling of factual events in the last year of Beethoven's life has introduced millions to the softer side of a musical god too often portrayed as stern and cold. Yes, there really was a Christoph, and Beethoven shared his home about the time of the composition of the Ninth Symphony, possibly humankind's musical high-point. In fact many real life occurrences came to pass just as Ms. Nichol's book tells. Beethoven Lives Upstairs is easy to read and hard to forget, and is a positive tale almost anyone should find likable.