Alfred distributes Penguins Who WasSeries for Young Readers
LOS ANGELES, CA
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CA- May 28, 2009
 This fascinating biography charts the musician's extraordinary career and personal life while painting a vivid cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe.
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 Louis Armstrong was a tough kid from New Orleans who pushed jazz into new realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.
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 Readers will learn about their Liverpudlian childhoods, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!
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