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Zanes, Dan

Dan Zanes' House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury

160 pp. | Quarto/Young Voyageur | December, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-76036-201-3 $24.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Donald Saaf. Music Notation by Claudia Eliaza and Billy Buss. This collection of sixty-four songs--including traditional shanties, hymns, folk songs, and original tunes by Zane--targets music-savvy educators and caregivers. The songs, from many cultures and languages, shine amid Zane's lengthy, sentimental notes about song origins, musicians, and instruments. The childlike folk art features children with a diversity of skin tones. Musical notation includes chords and melody line; guitar and ukulele chord charts also provided. Ind.
Reviewer: Amy Seto Forrester

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