I loved seeing two of my favorite musicians from this perspective, a poetic picture book of their friendship and collaboration. From their childhoods in Queens, meeting in 6th grade, to their first attempts at making music, to the day years later when "The Sound of Silence" became the number one song and launched their careers. Story told in a lovely series of vignettes; each spread has an illustration and the text, in free verse, is titled with the name of a Simon and Garfunkel song. The illustrations are adorable--kind of cartoony but sincere, if you know what I mean. Colorful. Again I love a book that has a differently illustrated dustjacket from the hardcover; one is portraits of Art and Paul, the other is two gorgeous city streetscapes from in the book, with Art walking down the New York City street and Paul walking down the London street. Author's note says he compiled the text from many sources, trying always to use the artists' own words or intent in his creation. Also ends with a nice list of "musical connections" of Simon and Garfunkel's, their first songs ever sung, or songs that strongly influenced them, any milestone music in their lives. I thought that was pretty unique. ( )

wasted on children; awesome for teens/adults/musicians ( )