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  • Kid Olympians: Winter: True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers (Kid Legends #11)

Kid Olympians: Winter: True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers
(Kid Legends #11)

Illustrator
Allison Steinfeld
Publication Date
November 11, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Kid Olympians: Winter: True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers (Kid Legends #11)

Description

Triumphant, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of international athletes who have captured the world's attention at the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, including Johnny Weir, Chloe Kim, Alex and Maia Shibutani, Surya Bonaly, and 12 other inspiring Olympians.

All over the world, athletes break records and defy odds to compete in the games--and some were kids themselves when they started dreaming and training! In Kid Olympians: Winter, discover the childhood stories of legends such as:

 

  • Michelle Kwan, who used to sleep in her skating clothes to get a few extra minutes of sleep before her lessons at dawn!
  • Cindy Ouellet, one of the few athletes to have competed in both the Winter and Summer Paralympics.
  • Apolo Ohno, who started skating because he thought the speed skaters looked like superheroes!


With kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, the book will inspire readers 8 to 12 years old to dream bigger, faster, and higher than ever before!

The diverse and inspiring group also includes Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, Adam Rippon, Kristy Yamaguchi, Lindsey Vonn, Marie-Philip Poulin, Shani Davis, Charles Flaherty, Maame Biney, and Nathan Chen.

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

Publication date
November 11, 2025
Genre
Non-fiction
Page Count
240
ISBN-13
9781683693932
Lexile Measure
1020
Publisher
Quirk Books
Series
Kid Legends
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
History
Olympic athletes
Winter Olympics
Robin Stevenson

Robin Stevenson is the author of more than twenty-five books for kids and teens, including Pride Puppy!, Pride Colors and Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change. The first edition of her nonfiction book Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community (2016) won a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. Robin lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy, Little Cloud and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.

Other Books In Series:

Kid Legends