We Are the Ship
The Story of Negro League Baseball
$68.64
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2008
Summary
“We are the ship; all else the sea.” - Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League
The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780786808328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0786808322 |
| Author: | Kadir Nelson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 817g |
| Dimensions: | 284mm x 284mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“An engaging tribute that should resonate with a wide audience and delight baseball fans of all ages.”–School Library Journal
“Easygoing, conversational storytelling is exactly what Kadir Nelson achieves in this pitch-perfect history of Negro League Baseball…. His grand slam, though, is the art: Nelson’s oil paintings…make the players look larger than life.”–Horn Book
“Nelson continues to top himself with each new book…. Readers will come away with a good picture of the Negro Leaguers’ distinctive style of play, as well as an idea of how their excellence challenged the racial attitudes of both their sport and their times.”–Kirkus Reviews
“One need not be a baseball fan to enjoy this book, because it’s more than a sports story. It’s a story of real people enduring more than many of us can imagine, playing a game they love.”–Library Media Connection
“The stories and artwork contained here are a tribute to the spirit of the Negro Leaguers who…deserve a more prominent place on baseball’s history shelves…. This is the book to accomplish just that.”–Booklist
About The Author
Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson’s paintings have been exhibited in many galleries and museums around the world, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance, and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences in Los Angeles; the Museum of African American History in Detroit; the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington D.C.; and the Society of Illustrators and the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York, as well as many others.
Nelson is the illustrator of many books for children. Among the best known are Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, an NAACP Image Award winner, a Caldecott Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner; Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please, by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee; and Will Smith’s Just the Two of Us, also an NAACP Image Award winner. We Are the Ship is the first book Nelson has written and illustrated.
Kadir Nelson lives with his family in California.
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