Ron, OBOC committee member and Libary Bound staffer, has been reading When Bob Met Woody: The Story Of Young Bob Dylan by Gary Golio.
The story of young Bob Zimmerman of rural Minnesota, who grows up and renames himself after his favorite poet–Dylan Thomas–and goes off to New York City where he meets folk music hero Woody Guthrie.
Beautifully illustrated in a unique style evocative of antique folk art, this children’s picture book in all its poetic simplicity just might be the best book on Dylan out there. Can be read to a child as a simple story about chasing your dreams, or as an early look at one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the last century.
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