Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth - Hardcover

Burleigh, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152009701 ISBN 13: 9780152009700

Verlag: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1998

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Book by Burleigh Robert

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Reseña del editor:

Featuring reproductions of vintage baseball cards that capture the highlights of the Babe's career, a portrait of George Herman Ruth, Jr., brings to life the man and his times through dramatic, full-color illustrations and a spare, brisk text.

Biografía del autor:

Robert Burleigh is a longtime baseball fan and the author of many books for children. His previous collaboration with Mike Wimmer, Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh, received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. His book Hoops (Silver Whistle, 1997), illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson, was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Editors' Choice. Mr. Burleigh lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Mike Wimmer is the illustrator of Train Song by Diane Siebert, Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz, All the Places to Love by Patricia Machlachlan, and Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh, which received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. The Chicago Sun-Times has described his artwork as "reminiscent of some of Norman Rockwell's best." Mr. Wimmer lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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• Verlag: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0152009701
• ISBN 13: 9780152009700
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Zeichner: Wimmer Mike