Chicken Joy on Redbean Road

A Bayou Country Romp

By Melissa Sweet, Jacqueline Briggs Martin

When people danced to Joe Beebee’s music they forgot about bad knees, tight shoes, backaches, blisters, and beetles . . . They forgot sickness, sadness, and sin. Joe Beebee’s music, folks say, will take you up so high, your problems look small enough to stomp on. But, worries a plain brown hen, can it make a quiet rooster sing? Can it save her best friend from becoming Quiet Rooster Stew? Will Joe Beebee even play for chickens?

With art as fun as waltzing on the moon and with words as lively as a fiddle, this book captures the power of music to heal and of friendship to endure.

ISBN: 9780618507597
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Apr 9, 2007
List price: $21
No of pages: 32
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Elephants
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Baby Animals
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Melissa Sweet

Biography

Melissa Sweet is the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator of many fine children’s books including Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White, winner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award; Balloons over Broadway, a Sibert Medal winner; and The Right Word and A River of Words, both Caldecott Honor Books. Reviewers have described her unique mixed-media illustrations as “exuberant,” “outstanding,” and “a creative delight.” Melissa lives on the beautiful coast of Maine. In addition to writing and painting, she enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. For more information about Melissa and her work, visit her online at melissasweet.net.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Biography

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of Snowflake Bentley, winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal, and The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, an ALA Notable Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, Riverbank Review Finalist, Notable Social Studies Trade book and winner of The Golden Kite Award for Illustration. She grew up on a farm in Maine much like the one in this story. She lives in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

When people danced to Joe Beebee’s music they forgot about bad knees, tight shoes, backaches, blisters, and beetles . . . They forgot sickness, sadness, and sin. Joe Beebee’s music, folks say, will take you up so high, your problems look small enough to stomp on. But, worries a plain brown hen, can it make a quiet rooster sing? Can it save her best friend from becoming Quiet Rooster Stew? Will Joe Beebee even play for chickens?

With art as fun as waltzing on the moon and with words as lively as a fiddle, this book captures the power of music to heal and of friendship to endure.

ISBN: 9780618507597
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Apr 9, 2007
List price: $21
No of pages: 32
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Elephants
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Baby Animals
BISAC 4:
BISAC 5:
BISAC 6:

Melissa Sweet

Biography

Melissa Sweet is the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator of many fine children’s books including Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White, winner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award; Balloons over Broadway, a Sibert Medal winner; and The Right Word and A River of Words, both Caldecott Honor Books. Reviewers have described her unique mixed-media illustrations as “exuberant,” “outstanding,” and “a creative delight.” Melissa lives on the beautiful coast of Maine. In addition to writing and painting, she enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. For more information about Melissa and her work, visit her online at melissasweet.net.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Biography

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of Snowflake Bentley, winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal, and The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, an ALA Notable Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, Riverbank Review Finalist, Notable Social Studies Trade book and winner of The Golden Kite Award for Illustration. She grew up on a farm in Maine much like the one in this story. She lives in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.