1973 edition of The Trumpet of The Swan by E. B. White, illustrated by Edward Frascino. Louis the swan is born mute, and Sam Beaver befriends him and helps him find his voice.
Written by E. B. White. Reprinted in 1973 with illustrations by Edward Frascino. Harper Collins.
The story of Louis, a trumpeter swan who was born mute and compensates by learning to play a real trumpet, and his friend Sam Beaver, and Serena, the beautiful swan Louis falls in love with.
Reviewing The Trumpet of The Swan for the New York Times in 1970, author John Updike compared E. B. White's third book to his first two, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web:
" "The Trumpet of the Swan" has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature. Its story most persuasively offers itself to children as a parable of growing, yet does not lack the inimitable tone of the two earlier works -- the simplicity that never condescends, the straight and earnest telling that happens upon, rather than veers into, comedy, the "grace and humor and praise of life and the good backbone of succinctness" that Eudora Welty noted nearly 20 years ago, reviewing "Charlotte's Web" in these pages."
Young Hoosier Book Award (Indiana)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas)
Sequoyah Children's Book Award (Oklahoma)
New York Times Outstanding Book
Library of Congress Children's Books
ALA Notable Children's Book
Condition*: Very good/very good. The dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Front of the cloth cover board has a few small water marks. The printing on the spine is slightly askew. A very nice classroom copy.
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