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Jesse Owens - Fastest Man Alive

English · Paperback / Softback

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In paperback for the first time, the compelling story of the famous Black Olympian who stood up to Hitler.

Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn't stop him. After setting world records for track in high school and college, he won a slot on the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. That year, the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, where Adolf Hitler believes the Games would prove to the world that people like him were superior to all others. But Jesse, a sharecropper's son, would ultimately topple Hitler's hopes, winning four gold medals and the hearts of millions to become known as the fastest man alive.

The story of Jesse Owens comes alive for young readers with Carole Boston Weatherford's award-winning free verse poetry and Eric Velasquez's stunning art.


About the author










Two-time NAACP Image Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford has authored many children's books, including the Newbery Honor winner Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom and the Caldecott Honor winners Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Freedom in Congo Square. Among Carole's other books are I, Matthew Henson; Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive; and Be a King. She is a professor at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
www.CBWeatherford.com.

Eric Velasquez won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for The Piano Man. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and lives in Hartsdale, New York.
www.ericvelasquez.com


Product details

Authors Carole Boston Weatherford, Weatherford Carole Boston
Assisted by Eric Velasquez (Illustration), Velasquez Eric (Illustration)
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 7
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.03.2022
 
EAN 9781547608980
ISBN 978-1-5476-0898-0
No. of pages 32
Weight 167 g
Illustrations four color throughout
Subjects Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous

JUVENILE NONFICTION / General, Children's, Teenage & educational, Children’s, Teenage and Educational

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