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panda_incognito's review against another edition
4.0
This beautifully illustrated picture book biography tells Althea Gibson's story with spirit and heart, capturing her tomboyish personality, her persistence, and her triumph as a black trailblazer in tennis. Although I was familiar with this woman's name and knew that she was an athlete, I knew almost nothing about her, and I enjoyed learning about how she broke the color barrier in tennis, learned to become a gracious loser, and carved out a place for herself despite cultural resistance to her "mannish" personality traits.
maidmarianlib's review
3.0
Well
Done biography of an important sports star, has a great theme of perceverence
Done biography of an important sports star, has a great theme of perceverence
shayemiller's review against another edition
4.0
Growing up in Harlem during the 1940s, Althea Gibson was known as “the quickest, tallest, most fearless athlete.” She played stickball, basketball, and tennis on the hot asphalt and was known as the fleet-of-foot girl who was good at everything she tried. Due to her skin color, she couldn’t attend the fancy tennis clubs, but as she became too good to ignore, many people began fighting for her to be included in the US Championships. This eventually got her to Wimbledon in 1957 where she won a championship two years in a row! The back matter includes an Author’s Note and a list of important dates with more interesting details about Gibson’s life. The artist used Adobe Photoshop to create the digital illustrations for this book.
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