From: Robin Smith <smithr>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:21:38 -0600

All these older books are wonderful! It's funny how easy it is to forget them.

 I would like to throw in my two cents for Betty Bao Lord's In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, the best introduction to baseball that I have ever read aloud. It is a tender story of immigration, assimilation and baseball during that remarkable period of our history. There are few books that captivate my children the way this book does! I smile every time I think of Shirley Temple Wong with her pigeon toes and her pigeon-toed hero, Jackie Robinson.

        -----Original Message---- From: Chris Saad [SMTP:chrisc at pond.com]
        Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 10:15 AM
        To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu
        Subject: Re: Sports Books for Young Children

        I recently reread Betsy and the Boys by Caroline Haywood. Betsy goes through
        all sorts plotting to get the boys to let her play football on their team.
        She is ultimately successful, but when she gets her clothes dirty playing
        football, her mother buys her a pair of ice skates and arranges for Betsy to
        have skating lessons during the time when the football team generally plays.
        What a disappointing turn of events! Still, given that the book was
        published in 1945, I guess I should be glad that Betsy got to play football
        at all, even if only for a brief while.

        Chris




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