Hardcover | Colors burst across each page with layers of collage-work emphasizing the richness of Mitchell’s influences and imagination…Will speak to readers just starting their own exploration of artistic expression –Booklist starred review Celebrate the captivating life of Joni Mitchell the world-famous songbird who used her music to ignite and inspire an entire generation in this stunning picture book biography from award-winning author and illustrator Selina Alko Joni Mitchell painted with words Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar she turned the words into songs The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas saying things that were not only happy or sad but true But before composing more than two hundred songs Joni was a young girl from a town on the Canadian prairie where she learned to love dancing painting birdsong and piano As she grew up into an artist Joni took her strong feelings—feelings of love and frustration the pain of having polio and the turbulence that came...