Author(s): Carole Boston Weatherford,Sean Qualls
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 24
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Language: English
Date Published: 2008-04-01
Dimensions: 208.28 x 259.08 x 12.7mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Updated and REV
Illustrations: Illustrations, color

Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.