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Mellage, Nanette

Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitter

32 pp. | Troll | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8167-7009-3 $$15.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu. The athletic feats of Josh Gibson, a star in baseball's Negro League, are narrated from the fictional perspective of a grandfather who remembers attending many of Gibson's games. The conclusion focuses on one especially dramatic game, played at New York's Yankee Stadium. Gibson's remarkable talent is revealed through well-matched text and illustrations, which together tell a lively tale that reads like fiction.

Reviewer: CHristine Sarrazin