# The Trumpet of the Swan

**Author:** E.B. White
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 1970
**Page count:** 251
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780008139438`
**ISBN-10:** `0064408671`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-trumpet-of-the-swan
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In E.B. White's 1970 fantasy, Louis is a trumpeter swan born without a voice. Unable to trumpet to win the swan he loves, he learns to read and write, then masters a real brass trumpet — playing in nightclubs and summer camps to earn the money to win her over. A tender story about finding your own way to be heard.

## Themes

- perseverance
- family
- courage
- nature
- animals

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)

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