Twelve Rounds to Glory : The Story of Muhammad Ali

English

ISBN: 0763616923

EAN: 9780763616922

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Sports & Recreation

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release Date: 02/11/2008

Age Range: 10-null

Synopsis: A dynamic author-illustrator team follows the threetime heavyweight champ through twelve rounds of a remarkable life. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. . . . Im the prettiest thing that ever lived! From the moment a fired-up teenager from Kentucky won 1960 Olympic gold to the day in 1996 when a retired legend, hands shaking from Parkinsons, returned to raise the Olympic torch, the boxer known as The Greatest waged many a fight. Some were in the ring, against opponents like Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier; others were against societal prejudice and against a war he refused to support because of his Islamic faith. Charles R. Smith Jr.s rap-inspired verse weaves and bobs and jabs with relentless energy, while Bryan Colliers bold collage artwork matches every move capturing the Louisville loudmouth with the great gift of rhyme who shed the name Cassius Clay to take on the world as Muhammad Ali.

Awards: Coretta Scott King Awards – null 

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Twelve Rounds to Glory : The Story of Muhammad Ali

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.56 inches

Width: 11.2 inches

Length: 10.34 inches

Weight: 27.73 oz

Pages: 80