Summary
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and integrated Major League baseball--changing the game forever. Kids will enjoy discovering more about this champion of equality, including:
His astonishing skill as a four-sport athlete: football, basketball, baseball, and track How he was court-martialed during World War II for standing up for his rights Why he was chosen to become baseball's first black player How he continued to build his civil rights legacy even after his baseball career ended It's an inspiring story, beautifully told by Michael Teitelbaum.
Michael Teitelbaum is the author of more 150 children's books including young adult and middle-grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on characters, movies, and television shows such as Spiderman, Superman, and Avatar. He has worked with all the major trade children's publishers, including Scholastic, Little, Brown, Dorling Kindersley, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Disney, Reader's Digest, and HarperCollins.
Michael's sports series, Backyard Sports, is based on the best-selling video game of the same name. He was also editor of Little League Magazine For Kids, and is the author of a two-volume encyclopedia on the Baseball Hall of Fame as well as Breaking Barriers; In Sports, In Life a character education program, based on the life of Jackie Robinson. Michael is the author of The Scary States of America, 50 short stories, one from each state, all about the paranormal, based on true events, published by Yearling.
Michael's latest book,The Very Hungry Zombie, done in collaboration with artist Jon Apple, is a parody of a children's classic, published by Skyhorse.
(Bowker Author Biography)
