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Sebastian Ritscher
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JAM, TOO?

Jacqueline Alcántara JaNay Brown-Wood

Lustrous illustrations and a rhythmic text featuring a cumulative list of sounds bring to life the thrill of an impromptu jam session and the joy of making music together.
A drum circle is forming on the beach, and one fascinated child would love to join in. Soon there's everything from a conga's pat-a-pat-a, pat pat to some bongos' taka taka, ta ta - and it looks like so much fun! But what do you do when you don't have a drum? Well, when you let the music move you, you just might find other ways to jam, too!


JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD (janaybrownwood.com), is an award-winning children's author, poet, educator, and scholar. Her previous books include Imani's Moon, winner of the NAESP Children's Book of the Year Award, and Grandma's Tiny House: A Counting Story!, winner of the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. She lives in Fair Oak, Sacramento, California.

Jacqueline Alcántara (jacquelinealcantara.com) is the award-winning illustrator of The Field and Climb On! (both by Baptiste Paul), Freedom Soup (by Tami Charles), Jump at the Sun (by Alicia D. Williams), and Your Mama (by NoNieqa Ramos), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Her books have been named Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and The Horn Book, among others. She draws and teaches illustration in Chicago, Illinois.
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Published 2024-02-20 by Nancy Paulsen Books

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Published 2024-02-20 by Nancy Paulsen Books

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With its steady flow of rhythmic words and the vibrant energy of dancing figures on warm sand, this musical story's joyful beat will prove impossible for young readers to resist.[A] simple yet enchanting way to construct the story pattern and quickly capture the personalities of the musicians.[with] irresistible communal moments depicted.[R]eaders will wish to hear and join the performance themselves. A story about a delightfully vibrant party of musical harmony, one that could pair well with a hands-on introduction to the different musical instruments portrayed in the story in interactive or musical read-aloud sessions.

Readers can clap, tap, and drum along to a rhythmic jam session in this joyful seaside introduction to percussion... The 'PAT-A-PAT-A PAT PAT' of the conga, the 'SLAP-SLAP. TIP-A-TAP' of the djembe, and other onomatopoeia ripple through Brown-Wood's rhyming, irresistibly rhythmic verse, immersing readers in the percussive experience.

This entertaining cumulative tale demonstrates the rhythmic power of music to bring people together in friendship.

A cumulative story with rhythm, rhyme, and a bopping bunch of percussionists... Each percussion instrument has its own onomatopoeic sound that undulates across the pages as the beat variations grow... With nearly singable text, this tale beckons readers to move. A fantastic book-jam that delights the ear just as much as the eye.

Brown-Wood's short and satisfying rhyming couplets provide a steady beat... Readers will be delighted to see that while the child may not have an instrument, the young one still has plenty of rhythmic skills to share. Surely a storytime winner, this radiant picture book will keep kids coming back to move and groove in their community.