Call number
E G
Collection
Genres
Publication
Tilbury House Publishers (2017), Edition: 1, 48 pages
Description
When they are forced to leave their Mississippi farm, young Cassie and her family head north to Chicago in search of a better life, but never lose their blues-playing roots.
User reviews
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
"I was six years old in 1936 the day we left the farm in Mississippi. Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore." So begins this poignant work of picture-book historical fiction, narrated by a young girl named Cassie,
Pairing an emotionally resonant tale with beautiful, eye-catching artwork, Daddy Played the Blues is an immensely engaging book, one which explores an important part of 20th-century American history, as well as important musical art form. Author/illustrator Michael Garland is obviously a great lover of the blues, something attested to, not just in the dust-jacket blurb about him, but also in the extended afterword he included, discussing the musical form and its many famous practitioners. I found the story here touching, the after-material informative, and I thought the artwork, which looks almost like it was done using wood-block cuts, quite appealing. I definitely prefer this style to the more glossy one Garland uses on some of his other books, like his recent Grandpa's Tractor. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories about the Great Migration, as well as those searching for picture-books about the Blues and its cultural significance.
Show More
whose African-American family migrates from the Deep South to Chicago, looking for work and a better life. Part of the Great Migration - a term given to the massive 20th-century population shift in the African-American community, from the rural South to the urban North - Cassie's family is sustained by their love for one another, and for the Blues, a musical form that her father and Uncle Vernon love...Pairing an emotionally resonant tale with beautiful, eye-catching artwork, Daddy Played the Blues is an immensely engaging book, one which explores an important part of 20th-century American history, as well as important musical art form. Author/illustrator Michael Garland is obviously a great lover of the blues, something attested to, not just in the dust-jacket blurb about him, but also in the extended afterword he included, discussing the musical form and its many famous practitioners. I found the story here touching, the after-material informative, and I thought the artwork, which looks almost like it was done using wood-block cuts, quite appealing. I definitely prefer this style to the more glossy one Garland uses on some of his other books, like his recent Grandpa's Tractor. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories about the Great Migration, as well as those searching for picture-books about the Blues and its cultural significance.
Show Less
Pages
48
ISBN
0884485889 / 9780884485889