Children and Jazz

I ran across a link today on Facebook and thought I'd share it with you guys...

In honor of Jazz (and Poetry) Appreciation Month, author, Regina Walker, offers some awesome ways to introduce Jazz to the little people in your life through children's books and music in her blog posts this month. Follow her posts in her "Jazz-oetry" series HERE.

One of the books she mentions, This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt, is a book that was given to my 2-year old son before he even got here. We started reading it to him right away and we've never read the book to him straight. Instead, we sing the book to him to the tune of "This Old Man" and after two years he STILL absolutely loves it! He picks it from his bookshelf and we have to sing it to him at least once every single night.

Comments

[Dionne]

I love this book and its use of onomatopeia (sp). I volunteer and read to children and they LOVE repeating all of the bop bop be bops in this book.

[Homegirl Quel]

Yes! I think without it, my son might not love it as much. Great book.