Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome have collaborated on many award-winning picture books for children. These include Satchel Paige, which was an ALA Best Book for Children and Words Set Me Free- The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, which received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal. The Quilt Alphabet was praised as "A blue-ribbon ABC book that combines bright, folksy oil paintings and lilting riddle-poems," in a starred review in Publishers Weekly and called "a feast for the eyes" in School Library Journal. They live in the Hudson River Valley region of New York.
"The lyrical prose infuses the book with the spirit of jazz . . .
the watercolors seem to blur together at times and swing like the
music that Teddy and Benny play. The biographical back matter will
give readers more insight into all of the musicians mentioned and
shed light on how a love of music helped the two break down color
lines."—School Library Journal
"Writing in punchy free verse that echoes the bounce of both men's
music, Cline-Ransome traces Goodman and Wilson's parallel—but
separate—paths to jazz fame . . . Working in watercolor outlined in
loose pencil, Ransome strongly evokes the allure of music that
Goodman and Wilson both felt as boys, as well as the way jazz all
but demanded people get up and move"—Publishers Weekly
"[I]ntroduces an important event in a snappy text that swings.
Ransome’s line-and-watercolor pictures also flow with movement and
color. Kids drawn in by the story of the young artists will go on
to ponder the history."—Booklist
" A solid exploration of a resonant musical partnership at a
historically significant moment in American music."—Kirkus
Reviews
"This book is a great starting point for students to discover two
jazz greats."—Library Media Connection
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