Overview

Long before they became one of the most beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York — best friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock 'n' roll. As teens, they practiced singing into a tape recorder, building harmonies that blended their now-famous voices until they sounded just right. They wrote songs together, pursued big-time music producers, and dreamed of becoming stars, never imagining how far their music would take them. Against a backdrop of street-corner doo-wop gangs, the electrifying beginnings of rock 'n' roll, and the rise of the counterculture folk music scene, G. Neri and David Litchfield chronicle the path that led two young boys from Queens to teenage stardom and back to obscurity, before finding their own true voices and captivating the world with their talent. Back matter includes an afterword, a discography, a bibliography, and a fascinating list of song influences.

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Influenced by Elvis, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and other folk singers, they produced their number-one hit The Sound of Silence after the assassination of JFK; the song broke all records, outselling even the Beatles. Neri conveys the spirit of those times through a text compiled from interviews with the two singers and other sources...Appealing, digitally created full-bleed illustrations capture in detail city streets, the two young boys, their later stardom, and their famous 1981 concert in Central Park. --Booklist When Paul Met Artie is a colorful, factual, enjoyable account of two lives and how they intertwined to become the voices of a generation. --New York Journal of Books

Influenced by Elvis, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and other folk singers, they produced their number-one hit The Sound of Silence after the assassination of JFK; the song broke all records, outselling even the Beatles. Neri conveys the spirit of those times through a text compiled from interviews with the two singers and other sources...Appealing, digitally created full-bleed illustrations capture in detail city streets, the two young boys, their later stardom, and their famous 1981 concert in Central Park. --Booklist When Paul Met Artie is a colorful, factual, enjoyable account of two lives and how they intertwined to become the voices of a generation. --New York Journal of Books The book's heavy retro vibe is reinforced by plenty of visual motifs--faded floral-print wallpaper, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, Paul and Artie in their iconic turtlenecks--that leave the reader feelin' groovy. --The Horn Book

Author Information

G. Neri is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ghetto Cowboy, winner of a Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, and Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, an Association for Library Services to Children Notable Book. He lives in Florida. David Litchfield is the creator of the award-winning The Bear and the Piano and the illustrator of several other books for young readers. He lives in the United Kingdom.

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