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Jazz Baby


By Carole Boston Weatherford

Reading Level: Pre-School, Early Elementary School
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Lee and Low Books 2002

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Young children tap their feet, clap the beat, and are introduced to the rhythm of jazz as they read or listen to this story told in rhyme.

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Caldecott Medal

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Newbery Medal

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