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Date de parution
06 octobre 2020
EAN13
9781647001612
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
06 octobre 2020
EAN13
9781647001612
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
ABOVE THE RIM
HOW ELGIN BAYLOR CH ANGED BASK ETBALL
BY JEN BRYANT
ILLUSTR ATIONS BY FR ANK MORRISON
Abrams Books for Young Readers
New York
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sincere thanks to the following people, without whose guidance, support, and
expertise this book would not have been born: Matt Zeysing, curator, and Alex Pedro, curatorial
assistant, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts; Carol Welch
and Laura Salvucci, reference department, Chester County Library, Exton, Pennsylvania; the
reference specialists at the Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Tamar Brazis and Howard Reeves, wise and patient editors at
Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York; Rob Sternitzky, copyeditor; Pamela Notarantonio, art
director; Frank Morrison, artist, who brought Elgin s story so brilliantly to life on these pages.
The illustrations in this book were created using oil on illustration board.
Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for
and may be obtained from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4197-4108-1 eISBN 978-1-64700-161-2
Text copyright 2020 Jen Bryant
Illustrations copyright 2020 Frank Morrison
Edited by Howard W. Reeves
Book design by Steph Stilwell and Max Temescu
Published in 2020 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.
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To my agent, Alyssa E. Henkin, and her family
-J.B.
To the children who love basketball as much as I love painting
-F.M.