Kid Athletes

True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends

by David Stabler

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Pub Date Nov 17 2015 | Archive Date Dec 13 2015

Quirk Books

Children's Nonfiction

Description

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up.

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend

Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker, his family sent him to reform school.
Race car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive.”
And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play.

Readers ages 8 to 12 years old will learn all of their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on every page. Other subjects include Billie Jean King, Jackie Robinson, Yao Ming, Gabby Douglas, Tiger Woods, Julie Krone, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Lionel Messi, and more!

Looking for even more totally true and inspiring childhood stories? Check out Kid Athletes and Kid Olympians: Summer!