The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Myers, Walter Dean

blues journey

48 pp. | Holiday | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1613-5 $$18.95

(1) 4-6 Illustrated by Christopher Myers. 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 pÃ¨re 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. Glos.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003