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Jazz Baby - Bebop

By Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by Laura Freeman

Paperback: $9.50

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A fun rhythmic story that encourages children to tap, snap, swing, and sway, to the jazzy musical beat.

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About the Creators

Thumb_carole_boston_weatherford_small Carole Boston Weatherford - Author

New York Times best-selling author CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD has dozens of books, including the Newbery Honor book, BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, and three Caldecott Honor books: Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Winner of the North Carolina Award for Literature, Carole teaches at Fayetteville State University. Juneteenth Jamboree is her first book.

Thumb_laura_freeman Laura Freeman

LAURA FREEMAN has illustrated more than thirty picture books, including the picture-book edition of Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, which won both the NAACP Image Award and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award, and Jazz Baby and Bedtime Fun, both published by Lee and Low's Bebop Books imprint. Laura lives near Atlanta, Georgia, and you can find her on the web at www.lfreemanart.com.

About This Title

ISBN

Paperback: 9781584305583

Guided Reading:

H

Lexile:

AD380L

Intervention:

14

Interest Level:

Grades PreK - 2

Reading Level:

Grades 1 - 1

Themes

Poetry, Music, Multiethnic interest, Dance, Cultural Diversity, Optimism/Enthusiasm, People In Motion

Part of These Collections

Bebop African American English Grades PreK-2, Emergent Dual Language, Emergent English, Bebop English Guided Reading Level H, Bebop Realistic Fiction Collection Grades PreK-2, Multicultural Collection 10, Multicultural Collection 12, Multicultural Collection 13, Multicultural Collection 14, Multicultural Collection 15, Multicultural Collection 11, Reading Recovery Bebop Books collection, Multicultural Collection 16