Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator: Sean Qualls
Readability Scores: Interest Level=K-2, (other scores not available)
Genre: Biography
Subgenre: Autobiography
Theme: Music
Primary and Secondary Characters: Primary=John Coltrane, Secondary=John's family members
Awards: Coretta Scott King Honor Book
Date of Publication: 2008
Publishing Company: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN Number: 9780805079949
Summary: This book portrays John Coltrane as a young child. It talks about all the things John hears and how he turns those sounds into music when he starts playing his saxophone. The book repeats the title several times, reiterating that this was all the sounds he was exposed to as a child that had a musical rhythm to them for him.
Applications for Teaching: This is a simple book that can be used to introduce the genre of biography. It could also be read and discussed in terms of how every sound around us could be thought of as music.
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