title: Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Candlewick Biographies: Ella Fitzgerald
author: Roxane Orgill
description: "Although Id known Ella Fitzgeralds singing for ages, I didnt get her until I saw a film clip of her singing A-Tisket, A-Tasket standing in the aisle of a bus. She was both guileless child and determined adult, a combination I had never encountered in all the singers I had known or researched." Roxane Orgill<br /><br />Roxane Orgill is an award-winning writer on music and the author of several biographies for young readers, including MAHALIA: A LIFE IN GOSPEL MUSIC AND FOOTWORK: THE STORY OF FRED AND ADELE ASTAIRE. She is also the author of DREAM LUCKY, a book for adults about big-band jazz, race, and politics in the 1930s. She lives in New York City.<br /><br />Sean Qualls is the illustrator of many books for children, including DIZZY; BEFORE JOHN WAS A JAZZ GIANT: A SONG OF JOHN COLTRANE; THE POET SLAVE OF CUBA: A BIOGRAPHY OF JUAN FRANCISCO MONZANO; and PHILLIS'S BIG TEST. He lives in Brooklyn.
zlib_text: KELLY	BARNHILL
  ALGONQUIN	BOOKS	OF	CHAPEL	HILL
  2018
  
  To	the	Ladies	of	the	Sewing	Guild
  (and	you	know	who	you	are)
  this	volume	is	lovingly	dedicated.
  
  Table	of	Contents
  Mrs.	Sorensen	and	the	Sasquatch
  Open	the	Door	and	The	Light	Pours	Through
  The	Dead	Boy’s	Last	Poem
  Dreadful	Young	Ladies
  The	Taxidermist’s	Other	Wife
  Elegy	to	Gabrielle—Patron	Saints	of	Healers,	Whores	and	Righteous	Thieves
  Notes	on	the	Untimely	Death	of	Ronia	Drake
  The	Insect	and	the	Astronomer:	A	Love	Story
  The	Unlicensed	Magician
  Acknowledgments
  
  THE	DAY	SHE	BURIED	HER	HUSBAND—A	GOOD	MAN,	BY	ALL	ACCOUNTS,	THOUGH	SHY,
  not	 given	 to	 drink	 or	 foolishness;	 not	 one	 for	 speeding	 tickets	 or	 illegal
  parking	or	cheating	on	his	taxes;	not	one	for	carousing	at	the	county	fair,	or
  tomcatting	with	the	other	men	from	the	glass	factory;	which	is	to	say,	he	was
  utterly	 unknown	 in	 town:	 a	 cipher;	 a	 cold,	 blank	 space—Agnes	 Sorensen
  arrived	at	the	front	steps	of	Our	Lady	of	the	Snows.	The	priest	was	waiting
  for	 her	