When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat by Muriel Harris Weinstein

This books is an engaging, fun to read tribute to Louis Armstrong and the singing style he invented known as "scat." The illustrations are very colorful and exaggerated and perfectly complement the story about jazz and scat. Also, a lot of the text and story is written in scat, so readers are given a first hand account of what scat sounds and looks like. I really liked how Louis Armstrong was an actual character in the book. This inclusion of one of the greatest jazz musicians to ever live helped to make the book a very fun and interesting read. There are lots of rhyming schemes in the book as well. For example, one of the lines in the book is the following: "Hey, you wanna scat? Scat like a purring cat?" In the end, music has a widespread effect on the community as the main character, a little girl, gets everyone in the neighborhood scatting and singing. My favorite part of the book is a section at the end of the book (after the story) with facts and information about Louis Armstrong and scat. I found this book to be an extremely enjoyable and fun read.