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Hardcover

Blues Journey

by Walter Dean Myers · illustrated by Christopher Myers

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Hardcover · 48 pages Candlewick Press · 2003

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About the book

Blues Journey

The blues aren't all sad. There's joy in the blues as well as heartbreak. Love discovered. Love lost. Love just around the corner.

In 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.

Each 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.

This 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.

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.


A Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor book 
An ALA Notable book
Horn Book Fanfare Selection
Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
A Children's Book of the Year, Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College


Details

Publisher
Candlewick Press
Author
Walter Dean Myers
Format
Hardcover
Published
Mar 1, 2003
ISBN-13
9780823416134
ISBN-10
0823416135
Pages
48
Illustrator
Christopher Myers
Carton quantity
32 copies
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250 – 499 $11.77 38% off list
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1,000+ $11.01 42% off list
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