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Weatherford, Carole Boston

Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive

32 pp. | Walker | January, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8027-9550-2 $16.95 | Library ISBN 978-0-8027-9551-9 $17.85
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Eric Velasquez. In stirring free verse, Weatherford writes about Jesse Owens's amazing athletic feats, his disdain of Nazi Germany, and his day-to-day encounters with American segregation. The majority of the story is set at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Owens won a record-breaking four gold medals. Velasquez's nicely textured pastels are a little stiff. Two pages of straightforward biographical information are appended. Reading list.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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