The stunning, stylized art in this text is music to the eyes as it introduces more than 100 soulful, jazzy, and rockin' words.
 --Chicago Public Library, "Best of the best"
“...Bravura painting. A daub of paint here and a smear there, and voilà, a perfect Louis Armstrong in caricature, or a luminous Nutcracker (as in the ballet), cracking down on a Note. Graphics as sophisticated as Innerst's often lack what interests children most: well-developed subject matter and a sense of humor. But both are fully in evidence here. My favorite page is U: a pair of portly, grass-skirted ukuleles hula dancing on a tropical beach, their sound-hole mouths opened wide with song. What's funniest is the transported expressions on their wooden faces -- raised eyebrows, downcast eyes: ukes with attitude.” --New York Times Book Review
 
"An imaginative fusion of finely tuned text and inventive illustrations."
 
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