Jazz / by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014, author.

Contributor:

Myers, Christopher, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Juvenile poetry.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--Juvenle poetry.

Jazz musicians.

Jazz--Fiction.

Musicians--Fiction.

Stories in rhyme.

Genre:

Fiction.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Holiday House, [2006]

Summary:

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

Notes:

"A Holiday House Book"

"With thanks to Daniel Burwasser, Ph.D. for his help with music terminology, history and theory."

"The artists created the illustrations by painting black ink on acetate and placing it over acrylic."

"The fonts are Clarendon Rough and Pablo."

"First Edition"

"Design: Yvette Lenhart."

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Honor, 2007

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has issue of "The Mini Page" of February 21, 1999 laid in.

ISBN:

0823415457 :

9780823415458

OCLC:

61652665