If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong - Couverture rigide

Orgill, Roxane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0395759196 ISBN 13 : 9780395759196

Editeur : HMH Books for Young Readers, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Orgill Roxane

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Roxane Orgill's vivid words and Leonard Jenkins's dramatic pictures combine to tell the story of a boy who grew up to be a giant of jazz - the legendary and beloved Louis Armstrong. As a poor boy in New Orleans, where music was everywhere - dancing out of doorways, singing on streetcorners, crying from the cornet of the great Joe Oliver for all to hear - Louis longed for a horn so that he too could sing, bring home pennies, and, most of all, tap happy-feet blues till the sun rose. It wasn't going to be easy. Many things, not all of them good, had to happen before he got his horn. But when at last he did, he sent music spiraling up into the New Orleans night sky like a spinning top gone crazy.

Revue de presse :

"Orgill chronicles young Louis' love of music in words that sing. . . . This vibrant portrait of the Jazz great's youth is one children will return to again and again." Publishers Weekly, Starred

"A 'musically charged tale'. . . In tune with the text Jenkins' [illustrations] create a setting that pulses with the sounds of jazz." School Library Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395759196
• ISBN 13: 9780395759196
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Illustrateur: Jenkins Leonard