When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan Review

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(More customer reviews)I was initially drawn to this book's colorful cover--it just caught my eye as being friendly, a warm friendly, like it had something to tell me. I couldn't stop staring at the golden look of this larger face with a smaller person looking up as if to say 'I wish I could be like you'.
This book took me through my entire life with a grace and a nostalgia that was warm and maybe intense at times. I realized that when I was young, I had been feeling some of the same things that Bob had felt. Not that it was negative, but it would have been nice to have had a mentor, some one to talk to or who could explain a bit about life in the way this book helps to convey. I don't think there is a point too early or too late in life to have dreams, heroes and the like in order to know more about yourself, to change direction, or to just find one's self.
It is fascinating when you learn even just a little bit about someone else. That changed my outlook on Bob and Woody, and in turn that changed me because through my reflection I learned more about myself. This book informs us on a level that we all can appreciate--not just kids--and says that it is ok to dream about something or to look up to someone as a source of inspiration, to look to others to help guide you, molding you into something that you want to be. It also shows that while looking for this inspiration you can go out into the world on your own, with your own soul finding and your own power of knowing yourself. If you keep trying hard enough at anything you will succeed.
When Bob Met Woody encouraged me to seek out and think about another Bob Dylan quote: "send me a key - I shall find the door to where it fits, if it takes me the rest of my life."

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"Hey hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song..." When Bob finished, Woody's face lit up like the sun. Bob Dylan is a musical icon, an American legend, and, quite simply, a poet. But before he became Bob Dylan, he was Bob Zimmerman, a kid from rural Minnesota. This lyrical and gorgeously illustrated picture book biography follows Bob as he renames himself after his favorite poet, Dylan Thomas, and leaves his mining town to pursue his love of music in New York City. There, he meets his folk music hero and future mentor, Woody Guthrie, changing his life forever.

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