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(T)his picture-book biography...does an excellent job covering Berra as both baseball player and cultural icon. Widener's illustrations...ably capture Berra's short stature and big personality. Thorough back matter concludes the book, including a double-page spread of Berra's 'amazing' stats, a bibliography, an author's note, several photographs, and source notes. - The Horn Book Yogi Berra was a lot of things...Rosenstock and Widener use his Yogi-isms to highlight a number of... experience(s) in his life...Widener's acrylic illustrations steal the show...Rosenstock provides a great amount of back matter...A solid purchase where the Yankees and baseball history are popular... - School Library Journal

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Barb Rosenstock is best known for her many picture book biographies, including Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library, Ben Franklin's Big Splash, The Streak, Dorothea's Eyes, and Blue Grass Boy, all published by Calkins Creek. Her other recent titles include a picture book about Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Can't Sleep, and a picture book about Vasily Kandinsky, The Noisy Paint Box, which won the 2015 Caldecott Honor Medal. She lives outside Chicago with her family. Visit her at barbrosenstock.com.

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