Imani’s Music by Sheron Williams and Jude Daly, ill. New York: Atheneum Books, 2002.  0-689-82254-5

Annotation: Imani, An African grasshopper, brings music to the new world when he travels aboard a slave ship.

Media: watercolor

Rating: 3Q/3P

Literary Device: onomatopoeia

Curriculum Connection: Upper elementary; a folk tale of how music began, this account helps bridge cultural gaps between African American and Caucasian

Onomatopoeia -

    Imani’s Music has some very nice sound words: “Cush, cush, cush.” The boats sing. The sand sang, “Grish, grish, grish.” The waves went, “Lap, lap, lap.”

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