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Salt in His Shoes

Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream

Salt in His Shoes( 4 customer ratings | )
Author: Jordan, Deloris
Jordan, Roslyn M.
Illustrator: Nelson, Kadir
ISBN:978-0-689-83419-6
Publication Date:Dec 2003
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $16.99
Book Description:

Michael Jordan's mother and sister team up for this heartwarming and inspirational picture book about faith and hope and how any family working together can help a child make his or her dreams come true. Michael Jordan. The mere mention of the name conjures up visions of basketball played at its absolute best. But as a child, Michael almost gave up on his hoop dreams, all because he feared he'd never grow tall enough to play the game that would one day...
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Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Basketball
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):22.86 x 30.48 x 0.508 cm
Book Weight:0.159 Kilograms
Author Biography
Jordan, Deloris (Author)
Kadir Nelson began drawing at the age of three, and painting at age ten. He won an art scholarship to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors, he began his professional career as an artist. He has worked with numerous companies including Dreamworks, where he served as the lead conceptual artist for Amistad and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Sports Illustrated; Coca-Cola; The United States Postal Service; and Major League Baseball. In 1999, he started collaborating with several notable authors on a series of picture books including Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; and Salt in His Shoes by Deloris and Roslyn Jordan. He won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, a Caldecott Honor and an NAACP Image Award for illustrating Carol Boston Weatherford's Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. He is the author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.

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