A review by debz57a52
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Brian Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney

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.