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When Ellen Zanderfrog finds an old trumpet, she just know it's a sign. ""I'm going to Memphis to be in a blues band!"" She travels down the river and meets other musical characters along the way. Bighearted E.Z. gives away her trumpet, and is given some tuna can bongos in return. Further down the river she gives away the drums and is given an invitation to a talent show on Beale Street in Memphis. But when E.Z. finally arrives, ready to sing the blues, she discovers the talent show was last year. Brokenhearted, she heads for the door. Just then she hears a familiar song. ""Is that the Froggy Bottom Blues?"" she asks. Ellen Zanderfrog is elated when she finds out her musical friends have all traveled to Memphis to join her blues band.

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Sharon Edge Martin is a reading specialist and writer whose stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Family Circle, Oklahoma Today, Outside, True West and other venues. Her poetry is included in Michael Bugeja's The Art and Craft of Poetry and in small press magazines. She writes a weekly essay for Oklahoma Observer and is a frequent reader in Oklahoma's spoken poetry scene. A book of poetry, Not a Prodigal, (Village Books Press) will be published in 2017. Froggy Bottom Blues is her first picture book. Timothy Lange graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1982. After working in advertising and corporate identity design, Tim started a graphic design and illustration studio in 1996. Currently, he is the owner of ThinAirCreative, Inc. Tim and his family moved to Oklahoma in 2003 where he joined the Oklahoma chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) in 2008. Tim has illustrated three easy reader books and one chapter book for Shortland Publishing, an imprint of McGraw-Hill. He has also illustrated three books for self-published authors. Tim is the author/illustrator of ""Scarecrow's Journey"" which was released by Doodle and Peck Publishing in 2016.

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