by Leo and Diane Dillon
Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, September 2002
$15.95, ISBN 0-590-47883-4
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949) was a world-famous tap dancer. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the charismatic hoofer was the highest-paid black entertainer in the country. He performed in Broadway shows, appeared in vaudeville acts, and starred in feature films with child actor Shirley Temple. Leo and Diane Dillon, a husband-and-wife team, have authored and illustrated many award-winning books for youngsters. In their latest effort, the Dillons pay homage to an amazing trailblazer in the picture book Rap A Tap Tap.
The brief but lively rhymed prose …
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