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Rap a tap tap here's Bojangles, think of that

Illustrations, rhyme, and music describe the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dillon, Leo
Other Authors:	Dillon, Diane, Turner, Charles, Kelley, Arthur, 1924-
Format:	Kits Kit Books Print Book Kit Audiobooks Kit
Language:	English
Published:	Pine Plains, N.Y. : Live Oak Media, p2005.
Subjects:	Robinson, Bill, > 1878-1949 > Juvenile fiction. Tap dancing > Juvenile fiction. Dancers > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Stories in rhyme.
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Summary:	Illustrations, rhyme, and music describe the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.
Item Description:	Compact disc. Track 1 has page turn signals; track 2 does not. Accompanying book published by Blue Sky Press.
Physical Description:	1 sound disc (ca. 7 min. each track) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.).
Production Credits:	Music by Arthur "Skip" Kelley.
ISBN:	1595193693 (CD & hc.)
Author Notes:	Leo Dillon was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 2, 1933. He attended Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he met his wife Diane (Sorber) Dillon. They graduated in 1956, married in 1957, and soon became a husband and wife team of illustrators. During his lifetime, they published over 40 children's books including Hakon of Rogen's Saga by Eric Hagard, The Ring in the Prairie by John Bierhorst, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton, and If Kids Ran the World. They won the Caldecott Medal in 1976 for Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema and in 1977 for Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove. They also won a Coretta Scott King Award and five Coretta Scott King Honors. In 2002, they published the first picture book they wrote themselves, Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That! They also created cover designs for adult science fiction books. He died from complications of lung surgery on May 26, 2012 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography)