This was the first book that Mr. Nelson illustrated and wrote. His illustrations deliver home run after home run. The text is a great and intimate, first-person, story as told by a fictional baseball player who was "everyman" and our eyes inside the game. It has a foreword by Hank Aaron! The illustrations let the reader be a kid and look up at the stars and times.
Age Range: 8 and up Grade Level: 3 - 7 Lexile Measure: 900L
Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, published by Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group.
This was the first book that Mr. Nelson illustrated and wrote. His illustrations deliver home run after home run. The text is a great and intimate, first-person, story as told by a fictional baseball player who was "everyman" and our eyes inside the game. It has a foreword by Hank Aaron! The illustrations let the reader be a kid and look up at the stars and times.
Age Range: 8 and up
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 900L