Take Me Home, Country Roads

by John Denver

Overview

Piano Vocal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781495043208
Publisher:	Cherry Lane Music Company
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Pages:	4
Sales rank:	227,296
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.01(d)

What People are Saying About This

Vince Gill

"It just makes sense - John Denver and kids!"

Editorial Reviews

And many a family will want to load up the minivan for an outing expressly to hear John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, which has just been released in a book-and-CD package, adapted and illustrated by Christopher Canyon (who also adapted the late singer's Sunshine on My Shoulders for kids). Jaunty artwork with the busy color and texture of a patchwork quilt add to the listen-while-you-look fun. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Canyon has outdone himself in his second pairing with a John Denver tune, this one about returning home to the place of his roots. A cast of wonderfully expressive characters journey day and night toward a reunion. Just as in real life, the family members are an interesting bunch, humorously reflected in the vehicles they are driving-a peace-sign-adorned Volkswagen van, a motorcycle, a station wagon towing a camper, a pickup truck, a camouflage-painted jeep and a fancy touring auto. The joyous reunion and its attendant feast and musical jam will have families itching to gather together. Canyon's portrayal of the song's West Virginia mountains and countryside as a quilt is inspired. Painting on textured paper and including every detail, right down to the stitches between the differently patterned "fabrics" making up the fields, mountains and trees, even hardcore quilters might be fooled into thinking this was the work of a needle and thread. (CD and score included) (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews