Angela Kucharski- "When Louis Armstrong Taught me Scat"

“When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat” is by  Muriel Harris Weinstein. The books plot is about a girl who gets exposed to Scat by her mother and than when she goes to sleep that night she cant stop thinking about scat. Louis Armstrong appears and helps the girl believe in her scat abilities and gets her to create more scat words. They create a song together about bubblegum and then he leaves after she has gotten more confidence in her scatting. This book teaches a few things, first off it gives a definition for scatting which young kids might not know what that is. It also teaches kids about self expression. In the book, when Louis first appears the young girl says that she cannot create scat words on her own. But after Louis shows her how easy and fun it is, she is creating words on her own! This is very important for young children to learn because self expression is an important part of creating and feeling music.