Jazz for Lunch!

by Jarrett Dapier (Author) Eugenia Mello (Illustrator)

Jazz for Lunch!
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Last Stop on Market Street gets a jazzy twist in this finger-licking good celebration of music, food, and family.

Struttin' with Auntie Nina down to a club,

We're gonna hear some music and then eat some grub.

Wanna get up close, but we're stuck in the back,

We can't see the drums and we can't get a snack!

But Auntie Nina's got a plan, don't you fret,

She's taking us to her place where we can get JAZZ FOR LUNCH!

Come on in, sit right down! Cuz Auntie Nina and her nephew are cooking up a symphony of food and sounds. The lip-smacking smells and be-bopping tunes might just get the whole neighborhood shimmying over to join in.

From Nat King Cole Slaw to Art Tatum Tots to Billie Hollandaise Sauce, get ready for some foot-stomping, finger-licking, booty-shaking, mouth-watering fun!

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Kirkus

This energetic jazz lunch is not to be missed.

Review quotes

Mello's digital artwork moves nimbly from the shadowy blues of the club to the spicy brights of the kitchen, and the climactic party scene is as invitingly raucous as viewers could wish. Please pass the salt peanuts. EB—
Jarrett Dapier
Jarrett Dapier is a writer, librarian, and lifelong drummer. His books include Jazz for Lunch!, which received a starred review in Kirkus, and Mr. Watson's Chickens, which received multiple starred reviews and was named a Best Picture Book of the Year by BookPage and a Best Book of the Year by NPR. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his family and their many pets. Lee Gatlin has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He is the illustrator of the picture book Monster School by Kate Coombs and Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding. He was born and raised in south Alabama, but he makes comics and art in Athens, Georgia, where he lives with his wife, three children, and two cats.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781534454088
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Atheneum Books
Publication date
September 07, 2021
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV057000 - Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
JUV031040 - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Music
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
Library of Congress categories
Dance
Picture books
Stories in rhyme
Aunts
Jazz
Cooking

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