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Season 5 Episode #18 Marley and the Family Band book review
Feeling the rhythm of resilience and community spirit? Join me as we explore Cedella Marley and Tracy Baptiste's delightful children's book, "Marley and the Family Band." This episode is a treasure trove of uplifting moments, from Marley's inventive problem-solving during a storm to the invaluable lessons from her legendary parents. You'll discover how this heartwarming tale, inspired by Cedella's own childhood experiences, beautifully captures the essence of adapting to new environments while cherishing one's roots.
Marley's move from Jamaica to Delaware becomes a journey filled with music, creativity, and neighborly kindness. Listen as I recount some of the most touching scenes, like Marley's determination to help her community despite her own setbacks, and the empowering wisdom imparted by her parents. This episode is also a celebration of multicultural representation in literature, ensuring every child sees themselves in the stories they love. Perfect for educators, parents, and story enthusiasts, this discussion promises to leave you inspired and filled with good vibes.
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Are you ready for some good vibes and community gathering? I've got a wonderful read for you today, written by the first daughter of the king and queen of reggae, sedella Marley, the first child of Rita and Bob Marley, and the title of the book is called Marley and the Family Band. This book gives you all the good feels of problem solving and community building, so stay tuned for this next episode while we get into it. Hello, I'm Jeba Edmonds and, if you are new to my channel, I am an educator and as well as an entrepreneur, business owner who is really just excited to share with you all things multicultural educational practices, including diversity, equity and inclusion, practices at work and cultural responsive learning for my educator friends out there that are written by wonderful authors, bipoc authors with their voices, so you can definitely showcase with your families and your students without perpetuating any more harm. And so for today's episode I'm super excited to share with you. It is titled Marley and the Family Band, written by Sadela Marley yes, the first daughter and, I believe, the first child of Bob and Rita Marley and she is accompanied with New York Times bestselling author, tracy Baptiste, and it's illustrated by Tiffany Rose. This book just gives you all that good feeling book just gives you all that good feeling.
Speaker 0:And what I love about it? The main character, marley, talks about her journey from Jamaica to Delaware and how she and her family just uprooted themselves into a new country, getting into a new neighborhood and just trying to get reacclimated about things and I really loved that. The author Sadela I listened to her in a previous podcast episode from the Growing Readers podcast with Bianca Schultz, so shout out to Bianca. And she talks about the inspiration of this book, of her living that life and her childhood, of moving out of Jamaica to a new country, the United States and basically around the world and migrating. And she wanted students and other children that look like her in that migration phase of their life and to how do you say, have that sort of connection and representation of that type of lifestyle and moving on and starting anew. But what I really love about this book it has the problem of Marley trying to have this fun concert but it got dampened by a big storm and Marlee also kind of talks more about you know, hearing the rhythms of the raindrops all the way in the kitchen and how her family has always taken things and used their music to bring joy. And another really cool thing about it was knowing that the concert was off and showing her family like I'm disappointed but what can I do to solve this problem. And she talks about how she remembered the hurricanes in her home country and trying to think about is it just like how this type of storm would be in Delaware, where I am now? And you know I just love how her family was very positive.
Speaker 0:Dad says, and I quote don't fret. After one time is another Basically saying you know it's all right, don't worry about a thing. You know sounds like her dad with the three little birds. You know Every little thing's going be alright. But this is another really cool thing is mom looks at Marley and says you can't fix a problem until you look at it up close. And I just, I just love that.
Speaker 0:You know, educators, we always want our students to be problem solvers. Right, we always go up. How can you? You have the power to solve the problem. That's why I used to say in my classroom when I taught, and I just loved how the, the imagery, the musical notes interwoven on each page so you can get a glimpse of, you know how musically the family is and of course, you know seeing how the neighborhood was impacted by this rainstorm. You know she even thought about, with these problems, how can I help my neighbors, because my problem with the storm and not having my concert is just a small problem compared to helping my fellow neighbor. And so she goes around the neighborhood.
Speaker 0:I'm not going to get too much into it because I want you to read it, but she is looking in and seeing, with umbrellas and other things around the house, how can she do to help people example, bail water out of their basement. How can she help with the umbrellas and in the um you know greenhouses and so um and thinking about. You know getting tarps when you have an injured neighbor who has a broken leg and how can you help him in his greenhouse. And so thinking about the, the sound you know students love sound effects of the animals, of the music. Have them probably mimic it while you're teaching. The lesson in this story is really good and you know she knew the solution Asking for help. You know covering the animals that needed help. Ask your students examples of how they've helped a neighbor and given a good deed. You know. Have them write examples down in their writing journals while you're doing this story. That also helps build that connection. And, long story short, they do get ready for that concert by collecting things around the neighborhood with the help of their neighbors and when everything is dried up, they start showing their stuff and it's just a wonderfully delightful book where, I love to say it, they love to make a big quote unquote splash at the end.
Speaker 0:This is such a light hearted book. I'm such a good fan of Sadela Marley. Now this is my first time getting her book and I highly recommend you purchase the book or get it at your local library. Marley and the Family Band, co-written with Tracy Baptiste and illustrated by Tiffany Rose. And another few things I want you to keep in mind. If you do like what you hear, continue to be an advocate on this channel with my multicultural educational resources. Be sure to subscribe to my channel and if you have some time which I know you will go back. I've got over 75 episodes dedicated to books and book reviews. Get your binge watching on, get that popcorn ready and you're in for a treat. I love bite-sized content that gives you just what you need and then you can keep moving along with your day. I can't wait to see you here same time next week on Mrs Edmonds' Cultural Corner and if you're listening on my podcast, the Cultural Curriculum Chat, see you next week. Bye-bye.