![]() ![]() Chris Raschka is the Caldecott Award-winning illustrator of A Ball for. ![]() ![]() Charlie Parker Played Be Bop is a colorful, whimsical romp through the world of jazz, sure to set young and old toes a-tapping. Look at this board book and youll hear Charlie Parker youll hear music in your. His bold, quirky illustrations add movement and light to the words, buoying their already lyrical effect. ![]() Raschka, whose Yo! Yes? won a Caldecott Honor, and whose Mysterious Thelonious-another ebullient, musical exploration of a jazz legend-was named a 1997 ALA Notable Book, proves once again that he is just as at home with a paintbrush as he is with a pen. Never leave your cat alone." Whether in complete phrases or in nonsense refrains that taste like music in your mouth ("Alphabet alphabet, alphabet, alph, / Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee, chick, / Overshoes, overshoes, overshoes, o, / Reeti-footi, reeti-footi, reeti-footi, ree."), Raschka brings melody to the page, and rhythm to eager ears. This sparse, rhythmic, repetitive text (inspired by a recording of Parker's "A Night in Tunisia") embraces and reflects the sound and feel of jazz when read aloud: "Charlie Parker played be bop. It would seem a riddle worthy of the sphinx: how do you give children a sense of jazz music without playing a note? Chris Raschka answers loudly and clearly with the illustrated, syncopated Charlie Parker Played Be Bop. ![]()
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