• Who Was Louis Armstrong? (Who Was?)

Who Was Louis Armstrong?
(Who Was?)

Author
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrator
John O'Brien
Publication Date
January 01, 2005
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Who Was Louis Armstrong? (Who Was?)
Currently out of stock
Description
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.
Publication date
January 01, 2005
Classification
Non-fiction
Page Count
-
ISBN-13
9780448433684
Lexile Measure
780
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural Heritage
JNF007040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
JNF036040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Jazz
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
United States
Jazz musicians
African American jazz musicians
Armstrong, Louis
Yona Zeldis McDonough

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of many books for children, including Sisters in Strength, Anne Frank, and Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott. Ms. McDonough lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jennifer Thermes is the author and illustrator of When I Was Built and Sam Bennett's New Shoes, which was a Bank Street College Best Children's Book. Her books as illustrator include the middle-grade novel Maggie & Oliver and The Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever! Jennifer also creates illustrated maps for magazine and book publishing clients.

More books like this
Other Books In Series:

Who Was?