UkeLit: Rockabilly Goats Gruff
One never knows what will happen in a kidlit-way when you find yourself at The Writing Barn in Austin, Texas. Curious City recently found ourselves sitting across from a ukulele-playing troll. That troll was the uber-talented Jeff Crosby in toothy disguise. Jeff is the creator of many picture books including the rockin’ Rockabilly Goats Gruff (Holiday House). Jeff illustrated a ukulele with his band, Rockabilly Goat’s Gruff for the UkeLit project. UkeLit’s mission is to 1) introduce music literacy to school and library settings by providing a ukulele (the user-friendly,...
Read MoreAnnouncing UkeLit
The Ukulele Lending Library (Got Uke?) has become UkeLit! MISSION To introduce music literacy to school and library settings by providing a ukulele, the user-friendly, starter instrument, for circulation and to represent the benefits of creating music through the inclusion of a children’s book featuring musical characters and plotlines within the ukulele case. See the creation of the UkeLit: Rockabilly Goats Gruff! BACKGROUND Piloted at the Portland Public Library in Maine in Spring ’13, the four ukulele’s have maintained a 96% circulation rate. The only barrier to an increased circulation...
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