Major Taylor: World Cycling Champion

by Charles R. Smith

Book Overview

A Coretta Scott King Award winner and a Pura Belpr? Illustrator Honor winner pair up for a rousing picture book biography-in-verse of legendary African American cyclist Marshall "Major" Taylor and the Six-Day Race.

One hundred years ago, one of the most popular spectator sports was bicycle racing, and the man to beat was Marshall "Major" Taylor, who set records in his teens and won his first world championship by age twenty. The first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536214981
• ISBN13: 9781536214987
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5