Esquivel!
Space-Age Sound Artist

Although Susan Wood's text of this picturebook biography is not the most inspiring (it's not bad at all but it's not exceptional either), it was really interesting to learn about Esquivel!, a Mexican musical innovator and the father of space-age bachelor-pad lounge music popular in 1950s and 1960s,......more

Great introduction to the uniquely gifted musician and pioneering sound artist. Energetically told with wonderfully imaginative illustrations by Duncan Tonatiuh.......more

Part one: DEFINITIONS To me, knowledge is all about connecting different pieces of information together to form a web that can uphold your arguments and beliefs. Therefore, connecting new knowledge or texts to outside things is very, very important. Text-to-self connection: this is similar to the “th......more

Read for Librarian Book Group Never has the use of an exclamation point in a book title been more appropriate.......more

I love everything Duncan Tonatiuh illustrates, and thought this was a really fun story (my kids were sadly a bit bored about a story of a old-time radio musician, though).......more