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Cox, Judy , Cox, Judy

My Family Plays Music

32 pp. | Holiday | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1591-0 $$16.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Elbrite Brown & Elbrite Brown. In this celebration of music's communal aspect, an African-American girl introduces her relatives one by one and describes their different musical passions--e.g., her mom plays fiddle in a country band; her dad plays cello in a string quartet--plus her own musical role in their respective groups. The inviting tableaux are created with cut-paper collage in flat slabs of both bright color and earth tones.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke