A musical note filled with wanderlust breaks away from its sheet music to roam all around New York City. It visits Carnegie Hall, the bright lights of Broadway, and a hidden jazz club. It soars between skyscrapers, flies into a bass, improvises in a trumpet, and dances a little swing with a trombone, until it finally finds its place in a guitar playing in Central Park. There, it makes all the difference, and the guitar’s melody becomes a song that enchants passersby.
Beautifully crafted with Hélène Druvert’s intricate lasercuts, New York Melody is a wonderfully imaginative introduction to New York and its many unique rhythms for young children.
Reviews
An adventurous and curious musical note flutters out of a concert at Carnegie Hall to see what else might be happening in New York City … Druvert employs lyrical verses … creating images that soar along with the music. Inventive, detailed illustrations in blue-gray, black, and white, along with one shining, golden trumpet, alternate with, and provide depth for, breathtaking, incredibly delicate and intricate laser-cut black pages, enriching the sweet, slight tale … An amazing, glorious experience.
— Kirkus Reviews
Contributors
Hélène Druvert
Author
Hélène Druvert is the renowned author and illustrator of Garden Jungle; Paris Up, Up and Away; Mary Poppins Up,Up and Away; and New York Melody.
