Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Trumpet of the Swan / E. B. White / 210 pages / Day of the Dead Challenge

I would highly recommend this audio-CD of E. B. White's classic The Trumpet of the Swan read by the author himself and enhanced with trumpet music where appropriate!  It is most intriguing for its premise as well as its theme.  Louis, a trumpeter swan is born with a speech defect - he can't, but uses ingenuity, determination, and friendship to devise clever coping mechanisms.  His father proves that he will do just about anything to help his son, and Louis proves that wrongs, even those done out of love and for the right reasons, must be righted.  This is a delightful, heart-warming, and most informative story.

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