Awards

• Nominated for Indiana Young Hoosier Master List 2011
• Winner of NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children 2010
• Winner of Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book 2009
• Winner of School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 2009

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9780385755573

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Starred Review, School Library Journal, September 2009: One to inspire young audiences with the vast possibilities that imagination and diligence can accomplish. The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 2009: Beautiful and beautifully told, the book tracks like the sort of graphic novel that breaks your heart, with its implied passage of time and slipping awawy of early dreams.

Starred Review, School Library Journal, September 2009: One to inspire young audiences with the vast possibilities that imagination and diligence can accomplish. The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 2009: Beautiful and beautifully told, the book tracks like the sort of graphic novel that breaks your heart, with its implied passage of time and slipping awawy of early dreams.

Author Information

Kathleen Krull is the author of a number of highly praised picture-book biographies. She lives in San Diego, California. Greg Couch is the illustrator of Nothing but Trouble- The Story of Althea Gibson and many other picture books. He lives in Nyack, New York.

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