Babe
& Me : A Baseball Card Adventure (An Avon Camelot Book)
by Dan Gutman
(Hardcover - February 2000)
Home
Run : The Story of Babe Ruth
by Robert Burleigh, Mike Wimmer (Illustrator)
"He has always had this swing. This easy, upthrusting swing. This 'pretty'
swing, not taught by any coach. One day the Babe just swung--and it was
there. It was his." Combining stirring, poetic prose and Mike Wimmer's
realistic illustrations, Home Run conveys the feeling of excitement and
awe that must have been present at a baseball game in which the great Babe
Ruth played. Robert Burleigh, who previously collaborated with Wimmer on
the award-winning Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh, writes this
picture-book tribute "for my Father--who loved the game ... for my son,
Eli, to help him learn the spirit of can-do." His great love for both shines
through. Our stomachs knot and spirits soar as Ruth steps up to the plate.
Home Run softly draws us into the story, and the illustrations, rendered
in oil on canvas, have an expansiveness and glow that lift them from the
page. The gentle tribute is enhanced by "vintage-style baseball cards"
that highlight aspects of Babe Ruth's career ("The Bambino loved driving
low-slung convertibles, donning silk shirts and coonskin coats, and downing
huge meals"), allowing Burleigh the opportunity to include important information
without destroying the perfect simplicity of the main story. A treasure
for anyone with a love of the game, Home Run is also powerfully affecting
for those new to the excitement it holds. (Click to see a sample spread.
Illustration from Home Run by Robert Burleigh, illustration © 1998 by Mike
Wimmer, reproduced by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company.) (Ages
5 and older) --Aimee Damman
(School & Library Binding - August 1998)
Babe
: The Legend Comes to Life (Fireside Sports Classic)
by Robert W. Creamer
(Paperback - April 1992)
Babe
Ruth
by Kal Wagenheim
(Paperback)
The 500 Home Run Club : Baseball's 16 Greatest Home Run Hitters from
Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire
by Bob Allen, Bill Gilbert
Listed under Baseball Legends
Babe
Ruth : One of Baseball's Greatest
by Guernsey Van Riper, Seymour Fleishman (Illustrator)
(Paperback - October 1986)
Babe
Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
by George Herman Ruth, et al
(Paperback - February 1992)
The
Babe Book: Baseball's Greatest Legend Remembered
by Ernestine Gichner Miller, Ernestine Miller
(Hardcover)
When
Willard Met Babe Ruth
by Donald Hall, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
(School & Library Binding - March 1996)
The
Babe & I
Terry Widener (Illustrator), David A. Adler
School & Library Binding / Published 1999
The
Babe in Red Stockings : An In-Depth Chronicle of Babe Ruth With the Boston
Red Sox, 1914-1919
Kerry Keene, et al
Hardcover / Published 1997
The
Babe Ruth Ballet School
Tim Shortt
Hardcover / Published 1996
Babe
Ruth Slept Here : The Baseball Landmarks of New York City
Jim Reisler
Paperback / Published 1998
Babe
Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
George Herman Ruth, Jerome Holtzman (Introduction)
Paperback - 301 pages (February 1992)
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803289391
The
Babe Signed My Shoe
Ernie Harwell, Geoff Upward (Editor)
Paperback / Published 1995
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