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Golio, Gary

Jimi: Sounds like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix

32 pp. | Clarion | October, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-618-85279-6 $16.99
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe. Golio ably introduces young readers to the rock legend by describing his humble childhood (he was raised by a cash-strapped single dad), first guitar (purchased from the landlady's son for $5), and creative drive ("He wondered: Could a person use music / like chalks and colored pencils?"). Steptoe accommodates the poetic, shape-shifting text in his heavily worked-over mixed-media illustrations. Websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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