PICTURE BOOKS
Miller, William

Joe Louis, My Champion

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Rodney S. Pate. Sammy, a young African-American boy growing up in the 1930s, wants to be a boxer like his hero Joe Louis, but his skills don't match his ambition. Eventually Sammy learns that it is persistence, not talent, that matters. Expressive, colorful illustrations accompany the worthy but heavy-handed story. A one-page historical afterword is appended.

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