Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
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Reading Level
Title
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
Illustrator
Book Publisher
Clarion 2010
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Keywords/Searchable Terms
- Middle Reader-Careful Content
- boys
- girls
- boys/girls
- African American
- art
- biography
- coming of age
- Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
- diversity
- drawing
- dreams
- individuality
- legend
- music
- Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal
- Seeker/Leader
- Answerman
- Joan of Arc/Empath
- Wild Thing/Annie Oakley/Mirette
- Investigator/Analyst
Young Jimi Hendrix wondered if someone could paint pictures with sound and the answer turned out to be yes. Someone could and that someone was Jimi Hendrix. As a child he painted and drew and listened to the sounds all around him. This vibrantly illustrated book brings not only the biographical information about Jimi's life to us but it brings his spirit and his journey. The entire volume reflects Jimi the artist with his sensitivity to the world and the human condition. Described now as the greatest electric guitarist of all times, Jimi and this book, flowed over with color, pattern, and most of all with a giant vibration. A stirring life to be celebrated. 32 pages Ages 9-14
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