The Blues of Flats Brown

Name: The Blues of Flats Brown
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9781430124962

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Charles Turner

Unabridged: 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Live Oak Media

Published: 02/01/2016

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

"Myers' fun picture book about a junkyard dog turned celebrated blues musician works wonderfully as a book/cassette kit thanks to Charles Turner's spirited narration and Mark "Dog" Deffenbaugh's bluesy guitar strumming...Turner's energetic narration keeps the story humming along. Deffenbaugh's guitar work pleases the ear, and his performance of 'The New York City Blues' (music and lyrics by Myers) is the program's highlight. This story about the joys of blues music has found a format that serves it very well." - School Library Journal

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jodysegal

The Blues of Flats Brown offers elementary age children (K-4) a picture book legend of a fictional blues playing dog, Flats Brown, who is raised to be a mean junkyard dog, but has the soul and talent of a blues guitarist instead. We follow Flats and his friend as they run away, first to the music ha......more