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Taylor Swift grew up with Paul McCartney as her inspiration, but the respect goes both ways. McCartney considers Swift an inspiration, too.

Inspiring, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of musicians, including Taylor Swift, Louis Armstrong, Harry Styles, Mariah Carey, Yo-Yo Ma, Paul McCartney, and 10 other influential performers.

August Wilson grew up open to the creative inspiration in everything he encountered: in library books, in music, in artworks, in the lively conversations overheard in the restaurants and barbershops lining the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood. August paid attention. He listened. And when he got older, he got ideas about what to do with everything he’d seen and heard—ideas that would make him one of the greatest playwrights in American history.

A day at the circus! Oh my! So many things to see! So many things to do! Clowns and Ferris wheel rides, tents and trapeze artists. A Day at the Circus takes a look at all those wonderful experiences that happen at a sunny day at the circus.

Louis stood staring in the store window. There it was! The thing that he just had to have. The thing that would change his life. Louis started there, but he didn’t stop there. Before he was finished, the world was happier place, and it all started with what he saw in that window!