Charlie Parker Played Be Bop – Chris Raschka

I love a children’s book that you have to think about. This one I had to ask my jazz musician husband how to read properly. It’s written in the form a jazz song, with a melody, a call and response between a saxophone and drums, the melody, a Charlie-Parker-style saxophone solo, and the melody again – with a lovely sustain at the end. I’ve been calling the lyrics back and forth with my two-year-old all week. And great art work, totally different in style than the other Chris Raschka book I’ve read – Five for a Little One.

I can’t recommend this highly enough.


Charlier Parker Played Be Bop
Chris Raschka
1992
Available from Amazon in boardbook, paperback, or hardcover.