shopping cart
Powell's 2010 Puddly Awards
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | December 24, 2009

Richard Wiseman: IMG The New Science of Rapid Change

0 comments By Richard Wiseman

Want to improve your life? Perhaps lose weight, find your perfect partner, or obtain your dream job? Try this simple exercise... Close your eyes and... Continue »
  1. $16.80 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

    Richard Wiseman
Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$12.95
List price: $16.00
Used Hardcover
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Children's- Sports Biography

This title in other formats:

Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth

by Robert Wi Burleigh

Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Like most boys, he spent his summers playing ball on a dirt lot, but George Herman Ruth, Jr. followed his dreams to become a legend. He is the Babe—Babe Ruth—and baseball is his game.

Powerful oil paintings and spare, dramatic text draw readers into the mind of this larger-than-life sports hero. Reproductions of vintage-style baseball cards throughout the book detail Babe Ruth's career highlights.

Home Run is a compelling portrait of a man, and of a time when baseball was truly America's game.

Synopsis:

Powerful oil paintings and spare, dramatic text draw young readers into the mind of the larger-than-life sports hero known as Babe Ruth. Reproductions of vintage-style baseball cards throughout detail Ruth's career highlights. Full color.

Synopsis:

Meet--up close--the man who changed the game of baseball forever: Babe Ruth. Powerful oil paintings and spare, dramatic text draws readers in to the mind of this larger-than-life sports hero. Full color.

back to top

About the Author

Robert Burleigh is a longtime baseball fan and the author of many books for children. His previous collaboration with Mike Wimmer, Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh, received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. His book Hoops (Silver Whistle, 1997), illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson, was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Editors' Choice. Mr. Burleigh lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Mike Wimmer is the illustrator of Train Song by Diane Siebert, Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz, All the Places to Love by Patricia Machlachlan, and Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh, which received the Orbis Pictus Award for the best nonfiction book of the year. The Chicago Sun-Times has described his artwork as "reminiscent of some of Norman Rockwell's best." Mr. Wimmer lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780152009700
Subtitle:
The Story of Babe Ruth
ill.:
Wimmer, Mike
Author:
Burleigh, Robert
Author:
Wimmer, Mike
Publisher:
Harcourt Children's Books
Location:
San Diego :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Baseball
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation
Subject:
Sports & Recreation - Baseball
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Biography / Autobiography
Subject:
Ruth, babe, 1895-1948
Subject:
Ruth, george herman, 1895-1948
Subject:
Baseball -- Fiction.
Subject:
Sports & Recreation
Subject:
Sports & Recreation - Baseball & Softball
Subject:
Ruth, Babe
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
21
Publication Date:
August 1998
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
32
Dimensions:
11.38x8.80x.34 in. .86 lbs.
Age Level:
06-10
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $8.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements (Anne Schwartz Books)

    Deborah Hopkinson
  2. $6.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor

    Russell Freedman
  3. $5.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list

    Animals in Flight

    Steve Jenkins
  4. $6.99 New Hardcover add to wish list

    First Prayers (Life Favors)

    Tasha Tudor
  5. $5.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Swan Lake

    Helprin And Van Allsburg
  6. $15.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Yankee Doodle Boy

    Joseph Plumb Martin
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.