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Chicken Joy on Redbean Road:
A Bayou Country Romp
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618507597; $17.00
ISBN-10: 0618507590
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Chicken Joy on Redbean Road:
A Bayou Country Romp
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
When people danced to Joe Beebee's music they forgot about bad knees,
tight shoes, backaches, blisters, and beetles . . . They forgot
sickness, sadness, and sin. Joe Beebee's music, folks say, will take
you up so high, your problems look small enough to stomp on. But,
worries a plain brown hen, can it make a quiet rooster sing? Can it
save her best friend from becoming Quiet Rooster Stew? Will Joe Beebee
even play for chickens?
With art as fun as waltzing on the moon
and with words as lively as a fiddle, this book captures the power of
music to heal and of friendship to endure.
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- A literacy guide for Chicken Joy on Redbean Road: A Bayou Country Romp,
created by author Tracie Vaughan Zimmer. Available online at:
http://wildgeeseguides.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicken-joy-on-redbean-road.html
- Louisana
Musicians -- research and learn about Zedeco music -- an accordion-based
genre that began, shortly after World War II, in the south-central and
southwest prairies of Louisiana and is popular across the south but
particularly in Louisiana, Texas, and California. The music integrated
waltzes, shuffles, two-steps, blues, rock and roll, and most dance
music forms of the era.
- Check out additional information at the Zedeco site at http://www.mcbookwords.com/books/chickenjoy_zydeco.html to learn about those who are notable in the zedeco music genre.
- Chicken Joy on Redbean Road is featured "In the Spotlight" -- a monthly column published in Library Sparks. Check the November 2007 issue.
- Try making your own musical instruments from a cigar box or a screen door.
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www. jacquelinebriggsmartin.com
© 2010 Jacqueline Briggs Martin
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