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JUKE BOX by David Merveille

JUKE BOX

by David Merveille & illustrated by David Merveille

Pub Date: March 1st, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-933605-72-2
Publisher: Kane Miller

Merveille offers quick, witty glimpses of 15 musical genres, as the same number of appropriately dressed café customers step up in turn to feed a juke box. Each spread in this nearly wordless outing follows a similar visual pattern, with the jukebox and single human figure suspended on one side and a kaleidoscopic whirl of gear, dancers and the genre label on the other. The art, which has a flat silk-screened look, effectively captures each vibe, though some of the choices—one labeled “Let’s Get Lost” and another that’s unidentified but might be “Bad Opera”—are ambiguous. Certainly not comprehensive, this catalogue may still help to give younger children a sense of the different energies of various genres: disco, country, classical, Hawaiian music, punk and more. (Picture book. 6-8)