Bøger af Danette Littleton

Side By Side With New Friends There was not much excitement for the side-by-side kids that summer until Mr. McCurdy's Best of All Talent Shows came to town. News about auditions and prize money brought out the best when Harriet sang and not-the-best when Jimmy John and Buster's version of Mama Don't Allow was not allowed. After audition falls and failures, the Talent Show was a smashing hit. No sooner had the town folk settled down, than Bessalina, the littlest Scoggins, stirred everybody into a panic when she sneaked her day-care classmates out on a risky adventure. Older kids got caught up with angry mockingbirds, Tin Lizzies, and fish with teeth. In the end, all the kids gathered around Aunt Clara for a hair-raising Gullah ghost story. Look inside. About the Author, Danette Littleton I am a storyteller, music-maker, and teacher of all sorts and sundries of children from isolated rural areas, urban inner cities, and residential suburbia. As a professor of music and music education, I taught and trained music teachers and encouraged in each one a love of children and music. As scholar and author, I wrote journal articles, book chapters, and a professional book When Music Goes to School: Perspectives on Learning and Teaching (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). I have a beautiful, talented daughter, Eliza, and three outstanding and wonderful grandchildren, Gabriela, Nikolas, and Oliver. My Mama and I live together and care for each other with love and laughter.

Side By Side: Stories of Friendship in Black and White is about the adventures of Harriet and Lucy, the truest friends ever. It was a long time ago when they scouted for buried treasures, followed the trail of bank robbers, helped little old aunties with chores, saved small animals from flood waters, and out-smarted Jimmy John and Buster Scoggins. When these rascals weren't in trouble, they'd make some, especially for Harriet and Lucy. Would the Scoggins boys ever learn to be friends? Open the book and turn the page.

This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of music's importance in children's lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play. Directed toward music teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, this text invites inquiries and provides insights into contemporary challenges to learning and teaching in an era of standardization.