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Jazz Books for Kids
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The Jazz fly by Matthew Gollub A funny bug flies around town before settling in to his nightclub act on drums – and incorporates all the sounds he’s heard throughout the day. Includes a CD of music reproducing the scattin’ story! |
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Jazz A-B-Z by Wynton Marsalis A book for all ages: a very handsome volume of drawings and wordplay covering many of the jazz greats by the prolific and celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. |
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Who Bop? by Jonathan London Hip hares and cool cats dance to the swinging music of Jazz-bo's saxophone. |
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Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis For older readers: "It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Bud searches for who his father might be: Herman E. Calloway of the famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression! Includes lyrical passages of great beauty in evoking the sounds of jazz. Also available on CD, cassette and as an electronic audiobook. |
Other Books on Tape of a Jazzy Nature:
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Heaven’s all-star jazz band by Don Carter A young boy imagines his grandfather is playing with all the jazz greats up in heaven. |
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Jazz by Walter Dean Myers James "D-Train" Williams and Vaneese Thomas narrate this celebrated children’s author’s book on the roots of jazz. |
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Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories Jack Nicholson and Danny Glover tell a few of Kipling’s classic tales, joined by scat singer supreme Bobby McFerrin and South African vocal choir, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. |
Last Updated: May 7, 2008