by Katherine Paterson · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140321760
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«Come Sing, Jimmy Jo» is Katherine Paterson's children's and young adult novel, published by Puffin in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Eleven-year-old James becomes the lead voice of his family's country music group as they start to find success. With fame come the stages, a stage name, Jimmy Jo, and clothes he hates. Deep down, James just wants to sing, find his place, and stay true to himself.
Work originally published in 1985; this Puffin edition is from 1987. Nominated for the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (1987) and the California Young Readers Medal (1988).
For children's and young adult readers, especially those who enjoy stories about music, family, and fame.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
