Author: John Schwartz
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-04-13
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1429953020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can walk tall—whatever it is that makes them different. Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author: Leigh Montville
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0525567313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals! They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals again. Russell’s opponent? The fearsome 7’1” next-generation superstar, Wilt Chamberlain, recently traded to the LA Lakers to form the league’s first dream team. Bill Russell and John Havlicek versus Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The 1969 Celtics are at the end of their dominance. The 1969 Lakers are unstoppable. Add to the mix one newly minted reporter. Covering the epic series is a wide-eyed young sports writer named Leigh Montville. Years before becoming an award-winning legend himself at The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, twenty-four-year-old Montville is ordered by his editor at the Globe to get on a plane to L.A. (first time!) to write about his luminous heroes, the biggest of big men. What follows is a raucous, colorful, joyous account of one of the greatest seven-game series in NBA history. Set against a backdrop of the late sixties, Montville’s reporting and recollections transport readers to a singular time – with rampant racial tension on the streets and on the court, with the emergence of a still relatively small league on its way to becoming a billion-dollar industry, and to an era when newspaper journalism and the written word served as the crucial lifeline between sports and sports fans. And there was basketball – seven breathtaking, see-saw games, highlight-reel moments from an unprecedented cast of future Hall of Famers (including player-coach Russell as the first-ever black head coach in the NBA), coast-to-coast travels and the clack-clack-clack of typewriter keys racing against tight deadlines. Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Leigh Montville has crafted his most entertaining book yet, richly enshrining luminous players and moments in a unique American time.
Author: Jonathan Litton
Publisher: Little Tiger Kids
Published: 2015-01-05
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781848959675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a heavyweight hippo to a feather-light frog, this peek-through collection of animal opposites makes learning come to life!
Author: Roger Hargreaves
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-08-30
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1101632739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mr. Tall has one long problem, his legs! Can anyone help him?
Author: Kelsey Bishop
Publisher: Bishop Design House
Published: 2021-04-02
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781087955490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cryptozoology book for kids! Includes 11 facts and stories about the most popular cryptid creatures including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, Mothman, Abominable Snowman, and more.
Author: Petr Horacek
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781406342338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Turn the pages, lift the flaps and see animals of all shapes and sizes bring to life the world of opposites. From slow snail to fast cheetah, heavy hippo to light butterfly, smooth frog to prickly porcupine, these pop-up animals encourage early literacy, language and communication.
Author: Kari Jenson Gold
Publisher: Newbridge Educational Publishing
Published: 1998-06-12
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781567843330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Student Book
Author: Remy Charlip
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation/Ccb
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780761451426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two cowboys in search of their lost cow, Grace, are delighted when she finally finds them.
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Publisher: Owlkids
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781771471947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A series of ... vignettes in the daily life of a pair of weasels, parent and child. Whether they are having a bubble bath, kicking a soccer ball, or eating ice cream together, simple paired phrases showcase their loving--and amusingly realistic--relationship. After a fall: You boo-boo. Me bandage. At bedtime: Me tired. You wired"--Provided by publisher.