A Horn for Louis
Louis Armstrong--as a kid!
$17.05
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2007
Summary
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window… .
With messages about hard work, persistence, hope, tolerance, cooperation, trust, and friendship, A Horn for Louis is perfect for aspiri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375840050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375840052 |
| Author: | Eric A. Kimmel |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 79g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 133mm x 194mm |
| Series: | A Stepping Stone Book |
| Audience Age: | 7-10 |
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Eric A. Kimmel
Eric Kimmel grew up in Brooklyn, New York, loving the music of Louis Armstrong, who lived a few miles away in Queens. He is the award-winning author of the Caldecott Honor Book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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