With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold.

Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America.

Now with photographs from the original edition.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

• Yesterday Today and Forever
• The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
• The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie
• The World of the Trapp Family
• Forever Liesl : A Memoir of The Sound of Music
• Agathe von Trapp: Memories Before and After The Sound of Music
• The Original Trapp Family Singers
• Maria Von Trapp: Beyond the Sound of Music (Trailblazer Biographies)
• Christmas With the Trapp Family Singers
• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

I had a copy of this book as a child and lost it so was thrilled to find it on Amazon. It's not the best quality paper, but was just fine.

It is both historical and charming. You will enjoy this true story of the "Sound of Music" family. The family's adventures and trials will keep you turning the pages.

Excellent writingMy mother has enjoying reading the book. I have enjoying reading it also.