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Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Part of Who Was?

Author Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ
Illustrated by John O'Brien
$6.99 US
Penguin Young Readers | Penguin Workshop
On sale Dec 29, 2004 | 9781101639962
Age 8-12 years
Reading Level: Lexile 780L | Fountas & Pinnell W
Sales rights: World
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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.

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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.

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