If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618250769)

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 street corners, 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.

Author: Roxane Orgill
ISBN-10: 061825076X
ISBN-13: 9780618250769
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2002
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.82h x 7.98w x 0.15d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 66488 / If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 07/29/2002 pg. 75
Booklist 02/15/2003 pg. 1084
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2002