Illustrated by Ellen Rooney
2019, Page Street Kids, Salem, MA
HC $17/99
40 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 4.57 - 130 ratings
My rating: 5
Endpapers: Eggplant
Endpapers: Eggplant
1st line/s: ""Pat, pat, pat. The summer sun beat down on twelve-year-old Kathrine. She held out her piece of chalk and marked the tree as she ran past again. Two laps to go."
My comments: Another picture book biography winner! As a young woman in 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first female to run the Boston Marathon. Not only is this an inspiring book for girls of today, but eye-opening for adults that it wasn't so long ago that women were being denied such basic opportunities.
Goodreads: Kathrine Switzer changed the world of running. This narrative biography follows Kathrine from running laps as a girl in her backyard to becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with official race numbers in 1967.
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