Guernsey van Riper Jr

Knute Rockne

Young Athlete
Illustrator: Doremus, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of athlete and coach Knute Rockne.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 134mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780020421108
• ISBN-10: 0020421109
• Artikelnr.: 24281095

Autorenporträt

Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children's books.