Shake, Rattle & Roll - The Founders of Rock & Roll

George-Warren/Laura Levine, Holly

ISBN 10: 0618055401 / ISBN 13: 9780618055401

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001

About this Item

Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy. Record # 66419.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shake, Rattle & Roll - The Founders of Rock & Roll
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618055401
• ISBN 13: 9780618055401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Laura Lenne
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

An introduction to the pioneers of rock-and-roll music highlights the careers of fourteen artists who, nearly fifty years ago, created a brand-new sound and changed the course of popular music forever.

About the Author

Holly George-Warren has contributed to more than two dozen books about rock and roll, including The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, and The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. She's also written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Journal of Country Music, and Rolling Stone. Shake, Rattle and Roll is her first book for children. Ms. George-Warren lives in New York City.

Laura Levine's colorful and award-winning illustrations have been widely exhibited and have appeared in numerous magazines and books and on CD covers. Her rock and roll paintings hang in the collections of the House of Blues and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Her first children's book, Wig!, was a collaboration with the B-52s. Ms. Levine lives in New York City.