Swing Café

by Norac, Carl; Dautremer, Rébecca; Gilberto, Bebel; Francis, David

• ISBN13: 9782923163628
• ISBN10: 2923163621
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: The Secret Mountain

Summary

STORYBOOK A little Brazilian cricket named Zaz dreams of singing in New York. After hopping a ride on a woman?s fruit hat that takes her from her homeland to Manhattan, she meets a savvy fly named Buster who brings her to the Swing Café on East 54th Street. Everyone there speaks a common language, called Swing, and Zaz is inspired to take to the stage, sing from the heart, and deliver the performance of a lifetime.MUSIC CD Classic recordings by Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and other jazz legends are featured throughout the narration of the story.

Author Biography

Carl Norac is an award-winning author who has written more than 40 children’s books, including I Love You So Much, which was a Publisher’s Weekly bestseller. Rebecca Dautremer is the illustrator of The Secret Lives of Princesses and more than thirty other children's books. Bebel Gilberto is a rising star in world music who has recorded with Kenny G, David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, and Laurie Anderson. Her debut album Tanto Tempo climbed the world music charts with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide and became the third-best-selling Brazilian album ever in North America. She lives in New York City. David Francis trained as an actor at LAMDA in England and later at Shakespeare and Company in Massachusetts. He lived and worked in the UK for 20 years with several theatre companies in London, Exeter, Canterbury and Sheffield. He recently completed his eighth season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. He lives in Montreal.