Who was Louis Armstrong? - Who Was...?

Informationen zum Autor Yona Zeldis McDonough  is the author of the novels  You Were Meant For Me ,  Two of a Kind ,  A Wedding in Great Neck ,  Breaking the Bank ,  In Dahlia’s Wake , and  The Four Temperaments , as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor at  Lilith  magazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children. Klappentext If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history. Zusammenfassung If not for a stint in reform school! young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet! promoted him to band leader! and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing! improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Harrison, Yona Z McDonough, Yona Zeldis Mcdonough, Yona Zeldis/ O'Brien McDonough, John O'Brien, Who HQ
• Assisted by: Nancy Harrison (Illustration), John O'Brien (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2004
• EAN: 9780448433684
• ISBN: 978-0-448-43368-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 195 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Who Was...?; Who Was?
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies