Today is Poetry Friday across the kidlitosphere, and what better way to jazz up the day than with a collection on that very subject? Kelly R. Fineman celebrates this uniquely American music in her blog, and her review is short and sweet:
I read much of Walter Dean Myers’s book, Jazz, while I was in the bookstore, and I simply had to shell out the bucks to buy it. My favorite poems in the book are Louie, Louie, How You Play So Sweet?, which captures the spirit of Louis Armstrong perfectly. I like Stride for its funky internal rhymes and the striking illustration of a piano player in profile.
The rest is here.