Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer
by Shelley Sommer (Author)
132 pages
Booktalk: Have you ever heard the story of the first Jewish baseball player inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame? Read this biography and find out how he did it.
Snippet:
Hank Greenberg was six foot three by the time he was thirteen years old, a fact that sometimes caused embarrassment. “I began to think I was a freak,” he said. His height, though, combined with his physical strength, made him the perfect first baseman, the position he played for the Detroit Tigers for seven years, before moving to left field.
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up is here at Chapter Book of the Day!
1.Books4Learning (Survive Alive Series)
2.Heidi @ Geo Librarian (The Manatee Scientists)
3.True Tales & A Cherry On Top (Pablo Neruda – Poet of the People)
4.Apples with Many Seeds – Tammy (You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship!)
5.Bookish Blather (Flesh and Blood So Cheap)
6.Picture Book of the Day (Just Fine the Way They Are)
7.All about Books with Janet Squires (Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped Trains)
8.Nonfiction Book Blast (One Book’s Roots–April Pulley Sayre)
9. Amanda @ A Patchwork of Books (Weird Sports)
10. Jean Little Library (Totally Human)
11. Shirley @ Simply Science (Meerkat)
12. Great Kid Books (Top graphic novels at our school)
13. Gathering Books (Dave the Potter)
14 Brenda (proseandkahn) (Underground)
15. Jennie from Biblio File (How they Croaked)
Are you ready for the Nonfiction Book Blast?
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Posted by Book4Learning on June 6, 2011 at 11:52 am
Thanks
Posted by Heidi @ Geo Librarian on June 6, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Thanks for hosting!
Posted by Janet Squires on June 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Thanks for hosting.
My selection is “Claude Monet: the painter who stopped trains” written by P.I. Maltbie with illustrations by Joseph A. Smith.
Posted by Jeanne Walker Harvey on June 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for hosting! True Tales & A Cherry On Top features “PABLO NERUDA: Poet of the People” by Monica Brown and illustrated by Julie Paschkis
Posted by Jennifer on June 6, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I just got off the plane from a weekend trip home, but I had to add my link! Totally Human, an interesting read from Kids Can Press http://jeanlittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2011/06/nonfiction-monday-totally-human-why-we.html
Posted by Mary Ann Scheuer on June 6, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Thanks, Anastasia, for hosting. Today I have a post about the top graphic novels at our elementary school. It’s been fun to look back at the school year and see what the kids have loved reading.
http://greatkidbooks.blogspot.com/2011/06/top-graphic-novels-at-our-school-ages-5.html
Posted by myragarcesbacsal on June 6, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Hello! We have just recently joined the yahoo listserv of the kidlitosphere and only now realized how much we have been missing. I posted a link to a review we have done previously – it portrays the life of an artist, poet, slave – Dave the Potter. We have posted this to celebrate Black History Month last February – I hope you still accept it as our contribution for nonfiction Monday. Thanks!
Posted by Brenda Kahn on June 6, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Thanks for hosting Anastasia! I have Hammerin’ Hank on my tbr pile! I can’t wait to read it!
My NF Monday link is to the amazing book, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans
brenda