You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! (You Never Heard of...)
by Jonah Winter (Author) Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: You Never Heard Of...
Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He hit 660 home runs (fourth best of all time), had a lifetime batting average of .302, and is second only to Babe Ruth on The Sporting News's list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
In Jonah Winter and Terry Widener's fascinating picture book biography, young readers can follow Mays's unparalleled career from growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, to playing awe-inspiring ball in the Negro Leagues and then the Majors, where he was center fielder for the New York (later San Francisco) Giants. Complete with sidebars filled with stats, here is a book for all baseball lovers, young and old. Select format:
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$7.99
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Kirkus
Starred Review
"An all-star gem to share with grandparents, parents, children, baseball fans and anyone else."
ALA/Booklist
Starred Review
"The Say Hey Kid had style to spare, and so does this irrepressible book."
Publisher's Weekly
"A must-have for baseball fans."
Review quotes
"Winter's heartfelt, accessible text is infused with immediacy and enthusiasm.... Magnificent biography." —The New York Times Book Review Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2013:
"Even adults who are indifferent to baseball will likely be so drawn into Mays' story and Winter's rousing text that they'll want to gather up a crowd just to read this one aloud."
"Even adults who are indifferent to baseball will likely be so drawn into Mays' story and Winter's rousing text that they'll want to gather up a crowd just to read this one aloud."
Jonah Winter
Jonah Winter is the author of many award-winning books about baseball figures, including Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates; You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!; and You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! His other stellar titles include Here Comes the Garbage Barge!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Frida, a Parents' Choice Gold Medal winner; and Dizzy, the recipient of Best Book of the Year citations from Booklist, School Library Journal, The Horn Book, The Bulletin, and Kirkus Reviews. Barry Blitt's illustrations have appeared on the cover of the New Yorker and have also graced the pages of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Child magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. He is the illustrator of the children's books While You Were Napping by Jenny Offill and George Washington's Birthday by Margaret McNamara, as well as Once Upon a Time, the End: Asleep in 60 Seconds by Geoffrey Kloske.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781101934210
Lexile Measure
1010
Guided Reading Level
15
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Publication date
March 20, 2016
Series
You Never Heard Of...
BISAC categories
JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JNF054010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball
JNF007100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
JNF054010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball
JNF007100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
Library of Congress categories
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