Cuatro Vientos: La Trompeta del Cisne (Series #97) (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from avry15

Think of your most vital sense (sight, hearing, talking, taste and touch), imagine it gone, what would you do? The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White is a book that you'd definitely read. This is a story with lots of good moral values, inspiring and the noblest of adventure and desire that would s...

from Stbalbach

I listened to the audio version (from Audible), read by E.B. White himself. I'm certain the audio version is better than reading the book, it's oral story telling at its best. White's soothing trombone voice, the trumpet sound effects, song renditions, characterizations, and his emphasis on the s...

from kwiggi3

I read this book purely because my friend told me he had read it in school and that it was good, so I thought why not. While the book was very long and just over use of words at many times it did end up being a book I liked a lot. The idea of a swan being able to do all the things the Louis accom...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

One of my favorites as a child, holds up well to a reread. Not sure if an adult, reading it for the first time, would be able to suspend disbelief about the swans' lives in the midst ofa mostly realistic, even educational story. But White does write beautifully, of course, and there are some love...

from ImperfectCJ

"Dad, do you know what a male swan is called? I'm quizzing you." We'd been listening to The Trumpet of the Swan during lunch while Dad was at work. On a family car ride, our six-year-old decided to test his father's knowledge of waterfowl. "I don't know," said Dad. "A drake?" "No!" said our son t...