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Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper
Malaspina, Ann
Easy Fiction 921 C627 2012
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As a girl, Alice Coachman drew attention in her small Georgia town for her high-jumping skills, even though she used an improvised crossbar made of sticks and rags. After impressing the coach for the Tuskegee Golden Tigerettes and playing with the all-female track team, Coachman set an Olympic trials record and went on to compete at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, becoming the first African-American woman to win gold. Velasquez's majestic, thickly painted oils portray Coachman (b. 1923) with a quiet serenity and assurance, as Malaspina, writing in verse, conveys the magnitude of her accomplishments with agility and lyricism: "As she climbed to the top/ of the winners' stand,/ the crowd rose/ for the bare-feet flying,/ long-legs spinning,/ moon jumper from Georgia." Appended materials include several b&w photographs and biographical details about Coachman's later life. Ages 6-9. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Malaspina, Ann
Easy Fiction 921 C627 2012
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From Publishers' Weekly:
As a girl, Alice Coachman drew attention in her small Georgia town for her high-jumping skills, even though she used an improvised crossbar made of sticks and rags. After impressing the coach for the Tuskegee Golden Tigerettes and playing with the all-female track team, Coachman set an Olympic trials record and went on to compete at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, becoming the first African-American woman to win gold. Velasquez's majestic, thickly painted oils portray Coachman (b. 1923) with a quiet serenity and assurance, as Malaspina, writing in verse, conveys the magnitude of her accomplishments with agility and lyricism: "As she climbed to the top/ of the winners' stand,/ the crowd rose/ for the bare-feet flying,/ long-legs spinning,/ moon jumper from Georgia." Appended materials include several b&w photographs and biographical details about Coachman's later life. Ages 6-9. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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