beecheralyson's review
4.0
Wonderfully illustrated, Pinkney's look at the life and career of Ella Fitzgerald is fun and comes complete with a scat cat narrator. Brian Pinkney's illustrations compliment the text.
debz57a52's review
3.0
The book covers Ella Fitzgerald's first attempts at singing publicly on the corner near her home as a teenager, to the Savoy and beyond. The style is very jive-like, with some language that young readers might not be familiar with. The odd little cat narrator is fine at the beginning and end, but I don't understand his presence at other parts, and it's confusing to young readers for him to assert that "he was there the whole time" when cat's can't live that long. Definitely meant to be read aloud.
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