Roots and Blues: A Celebration Hardcover - 2011
by Arnold Adoff; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Summary
Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature “shaped speech” style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.
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- Title Roots and Blues: A Celebration
- Author Arnold Adoff; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition None
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-01-03
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780547235547 / 0547235542
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 7 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 17.78 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 10 to 12 years
- Grade levels 5 - 7
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Novels in verse
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009026625
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"This exquisite collection of poems and paintings celebrates the history and culture of blues music."—School Library Journal, starred review
"An incandescent, important work."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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