Ella Fitzgerald by Andrea Davis Pinkney audiobook

Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

By Andrea Davis Pinkney
Read by Billy Dee Williams

Weston Woods
0.28 Hours • Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9780545748391

Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author Andrea Davis Pinkney has told Ella’s inspiring story in the voice of Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan whose imagined narrative sings with the infectious rhythms of scat.

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Summary

Summary

Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author Andrea Davis Pinkney has told Ella’s inspiring story in the voice of Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan whose imagined narrative sings with the infectious rhythms of scat.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“The lengthy text, filled with jazzy colloquialisms, keeps its focus solidly on the music, describing the thrill of Fitzgerald’s performances in language that rhymes and slides with the swinging beat of its subject and places readers at the center of the action. Younger children won’t understand the sense in many of the phrases, but heard aloud, the rhythm in the words will give them a feel for the music; older readers will enjoy both the similarities to rap and spoken-word poetry.” —Booklist (starred review)
“The prose…swings to a syncopated beat and piles on the synesthesia.” —Publishers Weekly
“In a playful, conversational tone, this work nearly sings the rhythms of scat. Lively words and phrases like ‘Her voice was quick-fried rhythm’ and ‘her scat swung to cloud nine and back’ are scattered throughout.” —School Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Andrea Davis Pinkney

Author Bio: Andrea Davis Pinkney

Andrea Davis Pinkney, the award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, has been recognized by the Coretta Scott King Author Award committee with an honor for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters and a medal for Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. She is a four-time nominee for the NAACP Image Award. In addition to her work as an author, she is a publishing executive. She has been named one of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business” by the Network Journal and is among Children’s Health magazine’s “25 Most Influential People in Our Children's Lives.”

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 0.28
Audience: Children (4–7)
Language: English

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