Jazz Day: The Making Of A Famous Photograph

"If jazz is audible poetry, then how fitting to find a poetry/fiction/nonfiction book about graphic designer Art Kane’s 1958 pitch to Esquire magazine: What if he got all the living jazz legends together to pose for a single photograph? The story of who came (and who didn’t) is an unlikely subject for a children’s picture book. All the more impressive, then, that this Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner is as visually stunning and fantastically written as it is. Jazz Day shows fabled musicians — like Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie — laughing, sweating, goofing around and, most importantly, alive once more. (For ages 9 to 12)"