Title: Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
Author: Gary Golio
Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe
Publisher: Clarion Books
Year: 2010
Awards/Accolades: Coretta Scott King Honor
Summary:
Curriculum Connections:
Health: because of the info in back matter dealing with Jimi's health issues, could be used to tie into a unit about substance abuse.Art: explore collage art
Music: study of different musicians
ACTIVITIES AND DISCUSSION TOPICS - from Coretta Scott King Award Guide
- Research Jimi Hendrix, his life, and his music.
- What music/musicians influenced Jimi? What type of music did he (Jimi Hendrix) play?
- Research the history of the guitar. What kinds of music do we think of most often when we
- think of the guitar?
- Create a Jimi Hendrix radio station (Pandora.com, lastfm, etc). Are there any Hendrix songs
- you enjoy? What other artists would you recruit to perform on your station?
- Which musicians do you believe Jimi Hendrix might enjoy today?
RELATED CSK TITLES
- Becoming Billie Holiday, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Floyd Cooper, published by Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc.
- Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, illus. by Kadir Nelson, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division
- Jimi and Me, written by Jaime Adoff, published by Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children
- Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney, published by Hyperion Books for Children
Special Features:
NPR story about the bookBack matter includes more details about Jimi's life. A separate section discusses his untimely death from overdose and offers a list of print and web resources about mental health and substance abuse.
This title is in the Saint Joseph School Library.
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