¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
By Dean Robbins
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
By Dean Robbins
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Category: Children's Nonfiction | Children's Picture Books
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$17.99
Nov 23, 2021 | ISBN 9781536206081 | 7-9 years
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Praise
Robbins’s snappy language and smoking turn of phrase brings the mambo and all its followers to life. Lázaro’s Spanish translation sizzles. . . . Velasquez’s illustrations send sparks flying off each full-bleed spread. . . . Fiery and rhythmic storytelling surges to the beat of the conga—a must-have selection for all ages.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Robbins’s prose is as musical as his subject. . . Velasquez’s characteristic, near-photorealistic illustrations, rendered in oil paint in a palette reflecting the time, add a dynamic fluidity to the historical atmosphere of this enlightening narrative nonfiction title.
—Publishers Weekly
Dynamic text goes hand in hand with vibrant, motion-filled illustrations to tell the story of the Latin sound that swept through New York and then the country in the 1940s and ’50s. . . . Exuberant, just like the dance.
—Kirkus Reviews
In Robbins and Velasquez’s hands, this early challenge to segregation makes for a lively, compelling piece of history.
—The Horn Book
Robbins and illustrator Velasquez capture the mambo craze of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when New York’s Palladium Ballroom disregarded color lines and welcomed people of different races dancing together.
—The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Awards
Chicago Public Library Best Books SELECTION 2022
Jane Addams Children’s Book Award FINALIST 2022
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Books for Young People AWARD 2022
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