In My Neighborhood (eBook)

Oscar Loubriel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
36 Seiten
Tilbury House Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-88448-703-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A search for one's place in the world provides the storyline: The narrator, a drum, feels like an outcast because he alone-unlike his family and friends-cannot play a melody. Like all kids growing up, he must find out where he fits.The narrator, a drum, wanders the streets of Coelho's vividly realised city of musical instruments-where even the birds sprout miniature trumpets from their mouths-feeling like an outcast because he alone, among all his family and neighbours, can't play a melody. He adores his violin brother, cello father and piano mother but feels he has nothing to offer to their music."e;My father is Cello, and oh, what a fellow. The tone of his laugh is low, smooth and mellow. But me? My name's Drum. BOOM-CLACK, RAT-A-TAT. My head is a snare and I wear a hi-hat. My stomach's a bass drum, my arms are drumsticks and my only song is CLICK-CLACK, CLACK-CLICK"e;.But one day a trio of saxophones ask him to join their band and what they tell him gives him an epiphany "e;So that's what a drum does! I now understand. I don't carry a tune; I carry a band"e;. But he must still prove it to himself, and that takes all his courage.Loubriel's story of bravery and identity, infused with Latin rhythms and joy, provides a fine vehicle for Coelho's vibrant technique and palette. Coelho's city of music bursts with exuberance. In backmatter, Loubriel, a lifelong drummer, explains how the drum kit lays a song's foundation. The bass drum is the heartbeat; the hi hat is the dynamic metronome; the snare drum is the drum kit's singer.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Illustrationen: Rogerio Coelho
• Zusatzinfo: full color
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Kunst / Musik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Band • Drum Set • finding where you fit in • instruments • Outcast
• ISBN-10: 0-88448-703-2 / 0884487032
• ISBN-13: 978-0-88448-703-6 / 9780884487036