Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm
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On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channel–and contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time line, bibliography, source notes.
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Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom and Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com.
Matt Collins has illustrated numerous picture books for children. Publishers Weekly praised his “dynamic” and “painterly” illustrations for Basketball Belles, and in a starred review, Booklist lauded the art’s “clever details that contribute to the you-are-there feeling.” He lives in Connecticut.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780823441891
- Publication Date
- February 12, 2019
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Page Count
- 40
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 6 - 9 years
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