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If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong Hardback - 1997
by Roxane Orgill; Leonard Jenkins (Illustrator)
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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.
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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.
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- Title If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
- Author Roxane Orgill; Leonard Jenkins (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
- Publication date 1997-09-29
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780395759196 / 0395759196
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 8.25 x 0.37 in (25.40 x 20.96 x 0.94 cm)
- Age range 04 to 07 years
- Grade levels P - 2
- Reading level 860
- Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Jazz musicians - United States
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96015380
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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