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Burleigh, Robert

Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds

32 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | January, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-689-86276-2 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Mike Wimmer. Subdued yet striking oil paintings accompany poetic text to portray something wondrous: Jackie Robinson stealing home during the 1955 World Series. Inset boxes on each page relate (in tiny print) a more detailed history of how Robinson helped desegregate major-league baseball. Read the narrative first for its beautiful simplicity, then go back for the facts. Websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Elizabeth Shaver

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