By Walter Dean Myers
Pictures by Christopher Myers
1997
AWARDS: Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott-King Award
Melodic verses of story, of poem unravel as author Walter Dean Meyers sings to us the truth and the hope of Harlem . Nearly every page has some reference to music and the song, or pulse, or rhythm that music offers to the streets and people of Harlem ,. He denotes places known to us who have not been there like The Apollo, the Cotton Club, and Dr. Martin Luther Boulevard . He references great people who have influenced life in Harlem , but left behind their words, their sorrows and their hopes like Asante
The art was very similar to that of Jabberwocky and I did recognize the illustrator as the same person. Art in ink, gouache and collage adorn the pages in a beautiful mix of color and depth.
Father and Son? Brothers?
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