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Alexander, Kwame

Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band

32 pp. | Sleeping Bear | September, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-688-0 $15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Bowers. A bass-guitar-strumming rooster dreams that he'll win the annual Barnyard Talent Show; his jazz-playing bandmates and competitors include Thelonius Monkey, Mules Davis, Duck Ellington, and Ella Finchgerald. The hokey story and middling rhymes, accompanied by rambunctious art, are informed by a mind that knows this subject cold, as evidenced by Alexander's back-of-book jazz timeline, bios, and glossary.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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