Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Adoff, Arnold

Roots and Blues: A Celebration

Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of...
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Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Adoff, Arnold

Roots and Blues: A Celebration

$47.53

Roots and Blues: A Celebration

$47.53
Author: Arnold Adoff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Arnold Adoff
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 01/03/2011
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.94w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780547235547
Audience: Ages 9-12


Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2010
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2011
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2010 pg. 1261
School Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 122
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 pg. 463 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2011 pg. 2117
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2012 pg. 11
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 33

About the Author

Arnold Adoff is the recipient of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children for the body of his work. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. To learn more, please visit www.arnoldadoff.com.

R. Gregory Christie is a Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winner and a Theodor Seuss Geisl Award recipient. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please visit his website to learn more: www.gas-art.com.


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