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Mama played baseball / David A. Adler ; illustrated by Chris O'Leary. by Adler, David A.   Publisher:  San Diego : Harcourt, c2003. Edition:  1st ed. Description:  1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Notes:  "Gulliver books." Young Amy helps her mother to get a job as a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while Amy's father is serving in the army during World War II. Reviews:  Oil paintings filled with motion and muted colors reminiscent of painter Thomas Benton Hart take the reader back to the time of WWII in this low-key story about a girl whose mother plays baseball. Amy's mother tries out successfully for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and fortunately plays for their hometown team. At first, narrator Amy isn't impressed. What kind of job is baseball, a game, compared to her father's peacetime job of delivering milk? But her father is away in the army, the family needs the income, and as she watches her mother play, Amy gains in enthusiasm. Despite this change in Amy, the choppy writing lacks emotional impact and explains feelings with phrases like 'We were so happy,' rather than conveying them through action and dialogue. It's surprising that the child of an athlete good enough to play pro ball initially cares so little for the sport. Amy also doesn't seem to mind it that her mother is away a lot or that her father is presumably in some danger. The artwork, which outshines the text, enhances the emotions described in an impressive debut by O'Leary. Readers looking for more effective picture books about women in baseball should try Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship, by Doreen Rappaport and Lyndall Callan (2000), or Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, by Deborah Hopkinson (p. 232). (Picture book. 5-9); 32pg. VNU EMEDIA, c2003.- Citation:  KK 02/15/2003 0298 PW 02/03/2003 0076 Added Authors:  O'Leary, Chris ISBN:  0152021965 : LCCN:  2001006865 No. of Requests:  0 Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Main Library - Dayton Children's Picture Books ADLER Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Huber Heights Library Children's Picture Books ADLER Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Kettering Moraine Library Children's Picture Books ADLER Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Vandalia Library Children's Picture Books ADLER Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Troy-Miami County Public Library Children's Picture Books ADLER Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Germantown Public Library Children's Picture Books E ADL Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Bradford Public Library Children's Picture Books Pb ADLE Available Request This Item Only Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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