"Song in a Rainstorm" Read Aloud

Out of cacophony, he created a song. As a baby, Thomas Wiggins loved listening to the sound of rain falling on his family's cabin. As a toddler, he wandered to the fence line to hear the rooster crow, and sang it back in perfect pitch.

Tom's mother, Charity, knew her blind son was special. He was not a "useless burden," as the slave owner had said, and she would do anything to give him a better future. But even Charity could not have guessed that Tom would get a chance to become on of the greatest musicians of his time.

From Tom's childhood on a plantation to his performances in the concert halls of Europe, Glenda Armanda shares the beautiful and at times heartbreaking story of a long-overlooked musical great, the love that supported him, and the struggle for freedom.

Join me as I read "Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins," by Glenda Armand and illustrated by Brittany Jackson.

Albert Whitman & Co, 2021