Jackie Robinson [Large Print]

by Joshua E. Hanft

Book Overview

A brief biography of Jackie Robinson, the man who was the first African American baseball player on a major league team, as well as the first African American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866119183
• ISBN13: 9780866119184
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Playmore Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great kids book, 3rd grade and up

This is a good book for kids (i.e. 3rd graders with good reading skills, up to 6-7 grades). My 9-year-old boy loved it, he couldn't put it down. We are white and it really helped him understand and empathize with what segregated America was like, and what a young black man had to go through to break baseball's "Color barrier". Great book for elementary school research papers. At 230 pages it's a substantial (not a quick) read, but the type is large and he motored right through it. It really kept his interest---he was very absorbed!