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Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion (Childhood of Famous Americans) - Softcover

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Van Riper Jr., Jr. Guernsey

 
9780020421405: Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0020421400 ISBN 13: 9780020421405
Verlag: Aladdin, 1986

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Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion is Guemsey Van Riper Jr.'s biography of a world-class athlete.

A biography of the Native American known as one of the best all-round athletes in history, for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner as well as an outstanding professional football and basebell player.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children’s books.

Dwight Graydon “Gray” Morrow (1934–2001) was an American illustrator who contributed to many comics and children’s books. He was the cocreator of Marvel Comics’ the Man-Thing and DC Comics’ vigilante El Diablo.

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One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively inspiring fictionalized biographies--easily read by children of eight and up--today's youngster is swept right into history.

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Verlag
Aladdin
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0020421400
ISBN 13 
9780020421405
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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