Storybook · From the Block Storybooks, Book 4
From the Block to the Finish Line
Our People, Our Story
Ages 4 to 8
Black sports pioneers, and a brother who learns to get back up.
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Malik is running the 400 meters at the citywide track meet, and he's nervous. Then Grandpa Joe opens a dusty shoebox of old photographs, and out come the African American athletes who ran, rode, jumped and swung their way into history, from the first Kentucky Derby to Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson. When Malik gets knocked down, they help him get back up.
A Black History Month pick and a gift for young athletes. The story continues in Back to the Finish Line.
What's inside
- A complete story for ages 4 to 8, told across 15 full-color two-page pictures
- Oliver Lewis and the first Kentucky Derby, Major Taylor, Jack Johnson and the Negro Leagues
- Jesse Owens, Alice Coachman, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson
- A story about courage, nerves and finishing what you start
- Fact pages with sources at the back for parents and teachers
A peek inside
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More in this series
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Holidays
An African American family story about Christmas, Kwanzaa and Watch Night.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Lab
African American inventors, doctors and scientists, discovered one room at a time.
Coming soonFrom the Block: Return to the Lab
The African American inventors who came next, and the ones still inventing today.
Coming soonFrom the Block: Back to the Finish Line
Black sports legends, and a girl looking for the sport that's hers.