Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly

by Anne Bustard

Book Overview

A biography of the musician, born Charles Hardin Holley during the Depression in Texas, and who pioneered a new kind of music.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689866674
• ISBN13: 9780689866678
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Don't forget the artist

Mr. Cyrus does it again. He obviously carefully researched his subject before completing this thoroughly one of a kind artwork. Even though most children will not be aware of who Buddy Holly was, this story along with the beautiful illustrations will be sure to hold their interest. Bravo for Kurt Cyrus!

Excellent

Good story. My husband and son both love it. We're big fans of his music ;)

Maybe Baby...This Book's For Us! Rave On!

What a wonderful way of introducing younger generations to Buddy Holly! This rock pioneer of the 1950s with his timeless classics will undoubtedly continue to delight listeners for time immemorial. I love this book! Buddy Holly, a young musician from Lubbock Texas is beautifully illustrated and presented in this book. He became a rock icon in the 1950s and his untimely death in a plane crash in 1959 sadly stilled a voice that delighted many. He along with Richie Valens and the Big Bopper perished in that accident in in Iowa cornfield on February 3, 1959. Holly has since been immortalized in Don McClean's 1971 song which I never cared for, "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie." This book is truly a gem and a masterpiece. The delightful pictures and the "personalization" of the young Buddy Holly is sure to spark young readers' interest. Bustard does a fine job of chronicling the rock legend's life and untimely death in a sensitive and serious way. Be sure to get a Buddy Holly CD as a gift to go along with this book. Bustard is an excellent author and it would come as no surprise if this book were to win awards, which it truly deserves.

The Problem With Today's Kids

--is that they don't know enough about Buddy Holly the rock star of the 1950s! Well, why should they, people who knew him personally are fading fast, and even the hit film THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY was released way back in 1978. (Although it's out on video and is readily available, as are each of Holly's recordings). Finally here's a book which could serve as a primer to educating young people about the legend who died too soon. It has colorful, attractive pictures of young people at work and play, and you can't help but recognize the familiar bespectacles countenance of our hero. Bustard is a fine writer with many Texas quirks to her writing, and while some young readers may not be able to decipher her lingo, others will go for it with gusto. I expect this child's biography to win the Newberry Award for book of the year. One proviso, of course the story ends rather sadly. Some young children are not ready to take in a whole book which winds up with the main character dying a terrible, lurid death. But most of today's kids will be able to take it, and before long they will be rocking out to RAVE ON, PEGGY SUE, and TRUE LOVE WAYS right in front of your eyes. I expect this book will be a big hit in Lubbock, Texas, center of the Buddy industry and eye of the Holly hurricane. Remember--"it's so easy to fall in love."