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 a poet and writer of numerous children's books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Dear Mrs. Rosenwald, The Sound That Jazz Makes, and Lee & Low's Jazz Baby and Juneteenth Jamboree. She is a contributing poet to In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall, also published by Lee & Low Books. Weatherford was an NAACP Image Award finalist for her book The Sound That Jazz Makes. She lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband and their children.

Yvonne Buchanan is a versatile artist whose political illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She also created the award-winning animated children's video, Follow the Drinking Gourd: The Story of the Underground Railroad. Buchanan lives in Syracuse, New York.

Classification
-
ISBN-13
9781584302735
Lexile Measure
400
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Publication date
April 01, 2000
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV031040 - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Music
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Jazz
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