Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter; Raúl Colón, ill. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. ISBN: 0-689-85643-1

From a young boy growing up in a poor family in Puerto Rico to one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Roberto Clemente personified the “American dream.”

Media: watercolor, colored pencils, litho pencils

Rating: 5Q/3P

Literary device utilized: rhythm

Example:

“Soup cans

turned into softballs.

Softballs

turned into baseballs.

Little League turned into

minor league turned into

winter league: professional baseball

in Puerto Rico.”

Curricular connection: Social Studies, middle school level

submitted July 2009 by Josh Mitchell  

Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates, by Jonah Winter and Raul Colon, ill. New York: Atheneum, 2005.

ISBN: 978-1416950820

Annotation: A moving portrait of the generous and driven baseball player, and the barriers (poverty, racism) he overcame in his all-too-brief career.

Illustrations: watercolor, colored pencil, pastels

Curricular Use: 6^th-8^th grade; Black History Month

5Q/5P

DM 6/25/09