Ben's Trumpet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner – A Poignant Art-Deco Story for Children (Ages 4-8) About Jazz and Musical Yearning

Ben's Trumpet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner – A Poignant Art-Deco Story for Children (Ages 4-8) About Jazz and Musical Yearning

<p>The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after page of striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.</p>