Acoustic Rooster's Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume by Kwame Alexander

Some vocabulary include band, percussion, acoustic, Cotton Club and jazz.

He also provides context or background information for the music or songs in the story and there is also a historical jazz timeline. Alexander provides a jazz glossary of musical vocabulary and a reference for the musicians used in the text. The story is told through rhyme with visuals of instruments and with settings capturing the look and feel of the historical time period of Latin and African American Jazz musicians, which are represented by animals to appeal to young viewers, for example, Ella Fitzgeralds head piece represents her time period. The story is about a rooster who wants to be a jazz star and tries to join several bands to win the farms talent show, but after several obstacles he starts his own. This is a Fountas and Pinnell level L text which is 2nd grade equivalent. The Brown Bookshelf recommends the picture book Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band (2011) by Kwame Alexander. Recently, Alexander led a delegation of 20 writers and activists to Ghana, where they delivered books, built a library, and provided literacy professional development to 300 teachers, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an International literacy program he co-founded. A regular speaker at colleges and conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world planting seeds of literary love (Singapore, Brazil, Italy, France, Shanghai, etc.).

Kwame believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his PAGE TO STAGE Writing and Publishing Program released by Scholastic. His other works include Surf's Up, a picture book Booked, a middle grade novel and He Said She Said, a YA novel. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and New York Times Bestselling author of 21 books, including The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Passaic Poetry Prize.

Acoustic Rooster's Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume by Kwame Alexander