Jazz Baby

by Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) Laura Freeman (Illustrator)

Jazz Baby
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
A celebration of music and movement, this story in verse is inspired by the riffs, rhythms, and freedom of jazz. Colorful spreads show close-ups of children playing drums, piano, and bass as they swing, sway, and jitterbug to the music. Weatherford offers an appealing and rhythmic text just right for young children. Freeman's colorful, contemporary illustrations have real child appeal, and invite every child to find herself or himself in the story. Jazz Baby is an exciting way to introduce young children to the instruments and rhythms of jazz.
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Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning nonfiction children's book author. Her books have received numerous accolades, including a Caldecott Honor for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom and a Coretta Scott King Award Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday, as well as the NAACP's Image Award. She is currently a professor and Director of Professional Writing at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. You can find more about Carole at cbweatherford.com.

R. Gregory Christie is a three-time recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award Honor for illustration (Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan; Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth; The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children), a two-time winner of the New York Times' 1 Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year (in 2 for Only Passing Through and in 22 for Stars in the Darkness), a honor winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for illustration (Jazz Baby), and a recipient of the NAACP's Image Award. He operates GAS-ART GIFTS, a children's bookstore with autographed copies in Decatur, Georgia. You can find more about Greg online at gas-art.com.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781584302735
Lexile Measure
400
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Publication date
April 20, 2000
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV031040 - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Music
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Jazz
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