Trinka Hakes Noble

A Fist for Joe Louis and Me

Illustrator: Tadgell, Nicole

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Produktbeschreibung

In Depression-era Detroit, two boys, one African-American and the other Jewish, bond over a shared interest in boxing. At the same time, America is gearing up for the rematch between American boxer Joe Louis and the German boxer, Max Schmeling. Against the backdrop of the 1938 Fight of the Century, a boy makes a stand for a friend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sleeping Bear Press
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 234mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781534110168
• ISBN-10: 153411016X
• Artikelnr.: 55171736

Autorenporträt

Trinka Hakes Noble is the award-winning author of numerous picture books including The Orange Shoes (2007 National Parenting Publications Awards Honors Winner), The Scarlet Stockings Spy (2005 IRA Teachers' Choice), The Last Brother, and The Legend of the Cape May Diamond. Ms. Noble also wrote the ever-popular Jimmy's Boa series and Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, both featured on PBS's Reading Rainbow. Her many awards include ALA Notable Children's Book, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, Learning: The Year's Ten Best, and several Junior Literary Guild Selections. Ms. Noble has studied children's book writing and illustrating in New York City at Parsons School of Design, the New School University, Caldecott medalist Uri Shulevitz's Greenwich Village Workshop, and at New York University. A member of the Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature, she was awarded Outstanding Woman 2002 in Arts and Letters in the state of New Jersey for her lifetime work in children's books. Ms. Noble currently lives in the historic Jockey Hollow area of Bernardsville, New Jersey.