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Uhlberg, Myron

Dad, Jackie, and Me

32 pp. | Peachtree | March, 2005 | Trade ISBN 1-56145-329-3 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Colin Bootman. It's 1947, and a boy and his deaf father love going to Brooklyn's Ebbets Field to watch Jackie Robinson play. Bootman's watercolors keenly re-create the sights and sensibility of 1940s Brooklyn, and Uhlberg, who based this story on a real-life incident, wisely underplays the parallel he draws in his author's note between Dad and Robinson, both victims of prejudice.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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