Genre: | Children |
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Language: | English |
Hardcover | |
ISBN13: | 9780805079944 |
ISBN10: | 0805079947 |
Dimensions: | 8.42 x 10.36 x 0.37 inches |
Weight: | 313 g |
Published: | April 01, 2008 |
Edition: | 19 |
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.