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Henry Aaron's Dream

Henry Aaron's Dream( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Tavares, Matt
Illustrator: Tavares, Matt
ISBN:978-0-7636-3224-3
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:Candlewick Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.99
Book Description:

Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated South who would become baseball's home-run king. Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a ball. And there wasn't a single black ball player in the major leagues. But none of this could stop Henry Aaron. In a...
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Book Details
Pages:40
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):10.2 x 12.14 x 0.42 Inches
Book Weight:1.335 Pounds
Author Biography
Tavares, Matt (Author)
Matt Tavares was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975.

Matt wrote and illustrated his first picture book, Sebastian's Ball, as his senior thesis at Bates College. Three years later, after much revision, Sebastian's Ball became Zachary's Ball, his first published picture book. Since then, Matt has published a number of books.

Matt's books have won several awards, including three Parents' Choice Gold Awards, a Parents' Choice Silver Honor, two Oppenheim Gold Seal Awards, and an International Reading Association Children's Book Award.

Matt lives in Ogunquit, Maine with his wife, Sarah, and their two daughters.

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