Let Your Hair Down: Max Said “Yes!” (The Woodstock Story)
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Author: Abigail Yasgur & Joseph Lipner
Illustrator: Barbara Mendes (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Change The Universe Press
ISBN: 9780615211442
Exuberant, edge-to-edge illustrations and simple rhyme salute a generous dairy farmer who took a chance on four kids, their dream and the prospect of peace.
You can watch Max Yasgur addressing the crowd at Woodstock, 1969, here.
August 15-17 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. How will you celebrate?
Other books mentioned:
More peace and tolerance on JOMB:
- And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends
- Enemy Pie
- Silent Music (A Story of Baghdad)
- The Araboolies of Liberty Street
- Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon
- Interview with Uma Krishnaswami about her Bibliography of Peace
Pop over to Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.
Today we stray from our standard format for an unplanned and extremely rambly chat about our observations of and unqualified opinions about self-publishing children’s books.
Author: 
Val Willis is connected to an extraordinary number of people through two things:
Children’s books are a phenomenal way to share the remarkable stories of real people. It makes you wonder how generations before us managed to enjoy stories exlusively through the oral tradition, without the combined talents of storytellers and artists.
Author: Lisa M. Chalifoux
Let me ask you a question. What went right today?
How many parents have been woken up in the middle of the night by a child with an incredibly sore ear? It’s the unknown for both the child and the parent that causes concern, especially at a time when their own doctor may not be available.
Adults face many challenges when helping children understand the world around them. Some choose to pretend that the world is without its struggles and rush their children past the realities of their communities. When it’s difficult to accept the world the way it is as an adult, it’s pretty much impossible to explain it to the next generation, the one that may be able to make things better.
Publishing a children’s book is a dream for many people. Some would-be authors never realize their dream, while others publish a book in short order. The most amazing of publication dream stories may be the one behind Joanne Froh and Frances Plagens’ book of fanciful children’s poetry, 
This episode is part of our Publishers Showcase, a special series of interviews with children’s book publishers, which we are running during the weeks of July 2 and July 9 2007.
Some people have the opportunity to understand the children’s book industry from several sides.
