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This book is about Josephine Baker pre-WWII, so the bit about her helping the French Resistance isn't here. Her cheetah is, however. Told in lyrics that read like jazz, the story of Baker's young life and start in stardom is related without fanfare, yet the racism that she faced is presented qu...
Priceman's flowing lines and folk americana style gave this book the small town feel Spinelli was going for. The stock group of characters interact through words and pictures that achieve a kind of chaining complementary effect--sometimes pictures lead out ahead of words, and sometimes the other way...
Priceman's illustrations keep dynamic pace with Winter's metered text. Text starts in an old-time blues rhyme (think Blind Willie McTell or Lead Belly) and then shifts cadence as Baker begins to experience the life she hoped for.
Warm, cheerful story about townfolk making the most of a cold, cold, winter.
Lively, colorful introduction to this fascinating entertainer.
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