Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
Written by Roxane Orgill
Illustrated by Sean Qualls
Scit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald by Roxane Orgill is an entertaining and fresh jazzy look at Ella Fitzgerald’s life and how she danced and sang her way to success to become a world famous jazz singer despite challenging obstacles. In the same way the title, Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat shows readers where Ella first started, it also captures Ella’s voice. More importantly, Orgill maintains that voice in telling Ella’s story. While Sean Qualls’ colorful mixed media illustrations complement the text and bring Ella Fitzgerald’s spirit to life, it is Orgill’s thorough research and choice of key moments leading up to Ella Fitzgerald’s fame that will most appeal to fifth grade readers.
Scit-Scat Raggedy Cat is broken up into eight lively chapters, a list of further reading, listening, viewing, and web page suggestions, as well as an index.
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald is a new title in the Candlewick Biographies series and joins other entertaining titles such as: Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, A Voice of her Own: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley, Slave Poet, Footwork: The Story of Fred and Adele Astaire, and Handel, Who Knew What he Liked.
The Candlewick Biographies are true stories of remarkable people, written and illustrated in full color for young readers. Each book illuminates a turning point or defining moment in the life of a notable individual in the arts, sciences, or history. Every fifth grade reading list should include Candlewick Biographies books like Scit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald from.
Title: Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald- Author: Roxane Orgill
- Illustrator: Sean Qualls
- Publisher: Candlewick Press
- Reviewer: Annemarie O’Brien
- Paperback: 42 pages
- ISBN: 978-0-7636-6459-6
- Genre: Nonfiction, biography, series
- Lexile Score: 910
