Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion - Hardcover

Lang, Heather

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590788508 ISBN 13: 9781590788509

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2012

Synopsis

As this year’s Olympics draw near in Rio de Janeiro, athletes from around the world are training hard to overcome the competition, just as Alice Coachman did for the 1948 Olympics in London. This inspirational nonfiction book by Heather Lang is a story of perseverance and unwavering ambition that follows Coachman on her journey from rural Georgia, where she overcame adversity both as a woman and as a black athlete, to her triumph in Wembly Stadium. With her strong determination and innate athletic talent, Alice raced her way to the top of the track and field world and, leaping over all hurdles in her path, went on to become the first African American woman to take home the gold medal. This amazing journey is complemented by Floyd Cooper’s pastel illustrations that serve to represent Coachman’s incredible struggles.

School Library Journal says: Lang brings her subject’s early years to life through small details... Cooper’s pastels keep to a brown, grainy palette, recalling the Georgia dirt on which the track star ran as a child.”

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Title: Queen of the Track( Alice Coachman Olympic High-Jump Champion) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: HeatherLang <>Publisher: BoydsMillsPress

Review:

"Lang brings her subject's early years to life through small details. . . . Cooper's pastels keep to a brown, grainy palette, recalling the Georgia dirt on which the track star ran as a child." --School Library Journal

"From the hardships of her Georgia childhood through the 1948 London Olympics at which she won gold and became a legend, this biography stands out for the lesser-known details it includes (e.g. Coachman's dance performance aboard the London-bound ship). Cooper's grainy sepia-hued pastels are striking; endnotes with more about Coachman and the historic 1948 Olympics support the thorough text." --The Horn Book Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1590788508
• ISBN 13: 9781590788509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Cooper Floyd