**Junior Library Guild Selection

Booklist Editors' Top 10 Arts Books for Youth

California Reading Association Eureka! Gold Award

CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young Readers

Parents' Choice Gold Award

Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers

Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year

Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration

Meet the famous composer George Gershwin and learn about his remarkabke composition "Rhapsody In Blue" in this engaging nonficftion picture book biography.**

George Gershwin heard music all the time—at home, at school, even on New York City's busy streets. Classical, ragtime, blues, and jazz—George's head was filled with a whole lot of razzmatazz! With rhythmic swirls of words and pictures, author Suzanne Slade and illustrator Stacy Innerst beautifully reveal just how brilliantly Gershwin combined various kinds of music to create his masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue, a surprising and whirlwind composition of notes, sounds, and one long wail of a clarinet. Includes author's note, timeline, and bibliography.