When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana

Winner of a Pura Belpr Illustrator Honor and a Robert F. Sibert Honor

Celebrate music icon Carlos Santana in this vibrant, rhythmic picture book from the author of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters.

Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el viol n. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing--a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music.

Carlos tried el clarinete and el viol n, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and the energy of Rock and Roll, and added the slow heat of Afro-Cuban drums and the cilantro-scented sway of the music he'd grown up with in Mexico. There were a lot of bands in San Francisco but none of them sounded like this. Had Carlos finally found the music that would make his angels real?

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/04/2018
ISBN: 9781534404137
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 12.20w x 0.50d
Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Pura Belpre Award - Honor Book

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2018 pg. 82
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2018 pg. 128
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 198345 / When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana
Reading Level: 4 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5