Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 15-16: Treetops True Stories: Carnival King

'Cartola' never becomes rich or leisured. He has a hard life on the whole, but the music of the Samba beat fills him with joy and inspires him to take up the guitar and become a legend to his countrymen. This is a story of the rise of an Afro-Brazilian boy, through the slums of Rio de Janeiro to bec [...]
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'Cartola' never becomes rich or leisured. He has a hard life on the whole, but the music of the Samba beat fills him with joy and inspires him to take up the guitar and become a legend to his countrymen. This is a story of the rise of an Afro-Brazilian boy, through the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become, for Brazilians, the King of the Carnival.