E.B. White: LA Trompeta Del Cisne/the Trumpet of the Swan (Cuatro Vientos) (Spanish language, 1996, Lectorum Publications)
Paperback, 175 pages
Spanish language
Published May 25, 1996 by Lectorum Publications.
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
A beautiful and amusing little miracle of a book. E.B. White could warm the coldest heart. The only word that hasn't aged well is "Indian."
If you aren't tickled by a swan staying at the ritz then I don't know what to tell you.
one of the first books i ever read. i was hungry for angst even as a brat toesucking child. i can still remember each scene clearly... louie's father breaking into a music shop, louie cutting his webs so he could more adroitly play the trumpet, practicing the bugles at the camp, the watercress sandwich. i had watercress for the first time in hot pot a couple months ago. i like him.
