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One Sweet Song

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One Sweet Song Children’s Book Recommendation is by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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A young girl on a city's balcony plays a triangle along with other people on balconies and open windows playing various instruments. Cover of One Sweet Song

One Sweet Song 

by Jyoti Rajan Gopal (Author), Sonia Sánchez (Illustrator)

Brief summary: A girl in the city listens to the notes of a flutist playing on the balcony. The child goes on her balcony and plays the triangle, making two notes. Another person plays the violin, making three. Soon there are ten people playing instruments creating a song together. They slowly diminish until it is quiet again.

Comments: This is a rhyming counting book up to ten and back down with various instruments played by amateurs and professionals.

I think this would be an excellent book for a music teacher to share before students re-enact adding and subtracting instruments and creating their own sweet song.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Children’s book titles are carefully handpicked by a certified elementary school librarian who, although retired, still enjoys reading children’s books, especially picture books, and recommending them to busy teachers, school librarians, parents, grandparents, and other book lovers.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris reads before recommending are checked out from the public library, except for those much-appreciated complimentary copies sent to her for an honest review. Those are noted. 

Children's Book Recommendations

Love, Lah Lah

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Love, Lah Lah Children’s Book Recommendation is by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Lah Lah is dancing in a pink dress with other Carnival people dressed in bright costumes. Her grandfather has a guitar and there is a man with a steelpan.

Love, Lah Lah 

by Nailah Blackman (Author), Jade Orlando (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Lah Lah wakes on the day of the Carnival and spends it with her grandpa, enjoying the festivities on the streets of Trinidad and Tobago(a two-island nation in the Caribbean). They enjoy dancing to the soca( SOH-kah ) beat with steelpans, watching the parade full of brightly colored costumes, and eating mango chow under a poui(POO-ee) tree. The day ends with Lah Lah singing on stage with her grandfather.

Comments: This book is a tribute to the author’s grandpa, Ras Shorty I, who created soca music, a mix of African and East Indian rhythms.

Carnival is celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.

The brightly colored illustrations were created with watercolors and digital tools capturing the movement and excitement of the Carnival.

The back sections include a glossary, a biographical sketch, and a letter.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Lah Lah is on the shoulders of her papa while watching the king and queen parade.

Nailah Blackman and her aunt, Marge Blackman performing Endless Vibration by Ras Shorty I

Children’s book titles are carefully handpicked by a certified elementary school librarian who, although retired, still enjoys reading children’s books, especially picture books, and recommending them to busy teachers, school librarians, parents, grandparents, and other book lovers.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris reads before recommending are checked out from the public library, except for those much-appreciated complimentary copies sent to her for an honest review. Those are noted.