The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma and His Gifts to the World (A Picture Book Biography)

This picture-book biography follows cellist Yo-Yo Ma from his early years in a musical family in Paris to performances in New York. At four, he chooses the cello and soon plays Bach from memory; later, he works to play with personal feeling rather than technique alone. As a teenager, he considers who he is beyond others’ expectations and studies anthropology in college. His interest in people and cultures leads him to learn musical traditions around the world and make music with strangers.