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Desert Song

Desert Song

Kemp, Laekan Zea
Gutiã(c)Rrez Hernàndez, Beatriz

Hardcover

Bedtime & DreamsGeneral Juvenile FictionPerforming Arts

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0823453928
ISBN13: 9780823453924
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 11.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A family joins the music of the Texas desert night in this tale of tradition and memory from Pura Belpré Honor author Laekan Zea Kemp.

As the blush of sunset gives way to night in the desert, coyotes, cicadas, and barn owls emerge, each calling out to the moon. Watching from their porch, the family joins the song. One by one, each relative offers their drums, flute, maracas, strings, and voices.

They sing with the insects, birds, snakes and toads; and they sing with their ancestors, an audience glittering in the stars overhead. With each strum of passed-down instruments, memories renew, and those gone are alive and near again.

Desert Song hums and chimes with all the music a front porch and the desert beyond can hold. Pura Belpré Honor author Laekan Zea Kemp's masterfully stirring text dances through Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez's enchanting and dynamic artwork. Readers will be left with the soothing sense that when creativity flourishes, the past is never out of reach, and the bonds that matter never break.

Simultaneously published in Spanish as Canción del desierto.

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Picture Book Award

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