Imani's Music

by Sheron Williams

Book Overview

Every once in awhile, Grandfather would tell a story about the land of Used-to-Be. This was how his story began: Used to be a time when there was no music on the planet. Only one tiny creature, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689822545
• ISBN13: 9780689822544
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

A real tear jerker

I know I'm sensitive, but I was trying to hold back tears as I read it to my children. It sees slavery from a grasshopper's point of view and I think it is just fantastic and a great way to start telling your children our history.

We Sang On!

This book is a powerful testament to the power of faith, hope , music and a people. As an African American woman it gave me an opportunity to discuss the hard subjects of the middle passage and slavery as it pertains to African Americans, with my children ,in a way that was not sad or confrontational. Just conversation opening. Using music as the thread that could hold a people and Imani the grasshopper together during the middle passage journey was a wonderful literary device easily picked up on even by my six year old. Because of this book she has vowed to me that she will sing everyday. This book has become her favorite book and when I hear her voice in the morning it becomes mine too.