~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the William Allen White Children's Book Award - 1973, a National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books - 1971, and the Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award - 1973
Louis is different from the rest of the swans in his family, when he tries to trumpet his love no sound comes out. Desperate to communicate Louis is confident he could learn to read and write if only they would let him into school. Thankfully, Sam Beaver, a boy who understands all wild things, agrees to help, but his teacher isn't sure that she can handle a swan in her classroom!
Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels, and The Trumpet of the Swan about a trumpeter swan who can't trumpet is one of his best-loved books with its timeless message of overcoming adversity and learning to do things on your own terms, marching to the beat of your own drum.