Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka

He lives with his wife and son in New York City. Charlie Parker Played Be Bop Raschka, C Raschka, Chris. He is also the illustrator of Yo! Yes? (which won a Caldecott Honor), Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie, Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, and Farmy Farm. : Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: Mint copy in unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar. And that's Charlie's cat, waiting, waiting for him to come home.Ĭhris Raschka is the Caldecott Award-winning illustrator of A Ball for Daisy and The Hello, Goodbye Window. That's Charlie swinging and spinning all over the pages. Charlie Parker played saxophone./The music sounded like be bop./Never leave your cat alone./Be bop./Fisk, fisk./Lollipop./Boomba, boomba./Bus stop./Zznnzznn./Boppity, bibbitty, bop. Look at this board book and you'll hear Charlie Parker you'll hear music in your mind. Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka (audio/ paperback). A brief, rhythmic text printed in different styles and varied with playful onomatopoeia recalls the humor and cadences of a great jazz musician.

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop is a colorful, whimsical romp through the world of jazz, sure to set young and old toes a-tapping.Ever hear of Charlie Parker? The great jazz saxophone player? If you have or if you haven't, it's okay. His bold, quirky illustrations add movement and light to the words, buoying their already lyrical effect. Raschka, whose Yo! Yes? won a Caldecott Honor, and whose Mysterious Thelonious-another ebullient, musical exploration of a jazz legend-was named a 1997 ALA Notable Book, proves once again that he is just as at home with a paintbrush as he is with a pen. Never leave your cat alone.' Whether in complete phrases or in nonsense refrains that taste like music in your mouth ('Alphabet alphabet, alphabet, alph, / Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee, chick, / Overshoes, overshoes, overshoes, o, / Reeti-footi, reeti-footi, reeti-footi, ree.'), Raschka brings melody to the page, and rhythm to eager ears.

This sparse, rhythmic, repetitive text (inspired by a recording of Parker's 'A Night in Tunisia') embraces and reflects the sound and feel of jazz when read aloud: 'Charlie Parker played be bop. It would seem a riddle worthy of the sphinx: how do you give children a sense of jazz music without playing a note? Chris Raschka answers loudly and clearly with the illustrated, syncopated Charlie Parker Played Be Bop.

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka