The Horn Book Guide

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Sullivan, Sarah

Passing the Music Down

32 pp. | Candlewick | May, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-3753-8 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Barry Root. As Sullivan explains in an excellent note, musician Jake Krack was only nine when he traveled to hear noted fiddler Melvin Wine, then eighty-six. Inspired by that friendship, Sullivan depicts just such an old man and gifted boy. The story is told in the lyrical, laconic lilt of its Appalachian setting, also captured in gentle golden-tinged gouache and watercolor paintings. Websites. Bib.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2011