{"product_id":"blues-journey-isbn-9780823416134","title":"Blues Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe blues aren't all sad. There's joy in the blues as well as heartbreak. Love discovered. Love lost. Love just around the corner.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this beautiful tribute to the poetry and art of the blues, renowned author Walter Dean Myers collaborates with his son, award-winning illustrator Christopher Myers, in a true masterpiece of picture book creation filled with struggle, grief, hope, joy, and love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach original blues-style verse on a page calls out a response from the artist in striking tones of brown, black, white, and blue. Together, father and son weave an enchanting story of the creation of the blues through the experiences of African Americans from the end of slavery through the beginning of the civil rights movement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for older children who love music and their parents who will appreciate the layered sophistication of the striking artwork and interplay between art and text. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Includes an author's note explaining the birth and development of the blues, a timeline of blues milestones, and an explanatory glossary of terms in the blues. Together this content deepens the appreciation for the blues as a truly original art form. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ALA Notable book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorn Book \u003c\/i\u003eFanfare Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice\u003cbr\u003eNew York Public Library Book for the Teen Age\u003cbr\u003eA Children's Book of the Year, Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College\u003c\/b\u003e★ \"A powerful union of text and image transmutes itself into a work of  art-and it explains what the blues is, besides. Walter Dean Myers takes  fragments of blues songs and creates an arc of poetry with them. His  son, Christopher, using only brown paper, blue ink, and white paint,  creates a visual counterpoint to the words that sometimes reflects them  and other times goes to a different but related place.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews,\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ★ \"In this collection of original poems, Myers's blues extend themselves to  themes of racism, loneliness, slavery, and just plain hard luck.  Christopher Myers's illustrations are impressively composed and  imaginatively varied in design. You'll have to make up the tunes, but  Myers père et fils are so deeply immersed in the rhythms and idioms of  the blues that the music will seem to come right out of you in response.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book,\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The blues' deceptively simple rhyme scheme tracks the deeper feelings  of  lives that have been bruised. In this picture book for older  readers,  Myers offers blues-inspired verse that touches on the  black-and-blue  moments of individual lives. His son Christopher's  images, which  illustrate the call-and-response text, alternate between  high spirited  and haunting.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWalter Dean Myers (1937-2014) was one of the premier authors of books for children, and received numerous awards including a Newbery Honor, recognition as the National Ambassador for Young People's literature, and the first-ever Michael L. Printz award, a Coretta Scott King honor, and a National Book Award finalist for his novel \u003ci\u003eMonster. \u003c\/i\u003eHe collaborated with Christopher Myers on \u003ci\u003eJazz \u003c\/i\u003e(a Coretta Scott King Honor book) and wrote\u003ci\u003e Here in Harlem.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Myers is a writer and fine artist, but he is best known for his award-winning picture books, including the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor book \u003ci\u003eHarlem\u003c\/i\u003e, written by his father, and his own\u003ci\u003e Black Cat \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e H.O.R.S.E,\u003c\/i\u003e both of which received Coretta Scott King Honor Awards. He lives and works in New York City.","brand":"Holiday House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302140432613,"sku":"NP9780823416134","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780823416134.jpg?v=1767722866","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blues-journey-isbn-9780823416134","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}