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Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta

The United States v. Jackie Robinson

40 pp. | HarperCollins/B+B | January, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-228784-7 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. This well-told biography relates how Jackie Robinson stood up for what was right even before he was a baseball star, including a central incident when he refused to move to the back of an army post bus in 1944. It concludes as Robinson breaks baseball's "color line" in 1947. Dramatic, expressionistic gouache illustrations offer a visual narrative that extends the text of this American story. Timeline. Bib.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2018