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Jackie's Gift Hardcover – October 14, 2010
Written by the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor winner, Jackie's Gift is a holiday tale-based on a true story-about friendship and breaking barriers.
- Reading age3 - 5 years
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - Kindergarten
- Dimensions8.78 x 0.39 x 11.34 inches
- PublisherViking Juvenile
- Publication dateOctober 14, 2010
- ISBN-100670011622
- ISBN-13978-0670011629
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About the Author
E. B. Lewis has illustrated almost fifty picture books since 1993, many of them award winners. He teaches illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.
Product details
- Publisher : Viking Juvenile; First Edition (October 14, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0670011622
- ISBN-13 : 978-0670011629
- Reading age : 3 - 5 years
- Grade level : Preschool - Kindergarten
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.78 x 0.39 x 11.34 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #504,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #75 in Children's Jewish Holiday Books
- #642 in Children's Sports Biographies (Books)
- #1,510 in Children's Christmas Books (Books)
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About the author
After a twenty-year career as a nurse midwife, Sharon Robinson shifted her focus to become an author and educational consultant for Major League Baseball (MLB). She has written five books about her father, including Jackie Robinson: American Hero (Scholastic, 2013) Jackie's Gift: A true Story of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Jackie Robinson with illustrator E.B. Lewis (Viking, 2010), Testing the Ice: A true story of Jackie Robinson with illustrator, Kadir Nelson (Scholastic, 2009). She has also written two middle-grade novels. Her next book, Under the Same Sun (Scholastic, 2014), features her mother and will be in bookstores January 2014.
In her work with MLB, Ms Robinson directs the national character education program: Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life. The program provides kids with stategies to deal with obstacles in their life. It culminates in a national essay contest with great prizes including laptop computers, school visits from Sharon, and a trip to MLB's All-Star Game! Now in it's 18th year, Breaking Barriers has reached over 22 million children. Sharon Robinson lives in Sarasota, Florida.
Learn more about Sharon and her books at www.sharonrobinsonink.com.
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021I received this book quickly and it was in perfect condition.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2016I teach in a multi cultural classroom. I love reading this book each year. My boys love it because it is about Jackie Robinson and I love his good-hearted action with a neighborhood boy. Kids need heroes like Jackie Robinson. Great book.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2017I bought this book for my grandson for his grandfather (a Brooklyn Dodger fan) to read during Chanukah! Sweet and lovely story!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2012A wonderful, heart warming story of love and respect transcending race and religion. A true holiday story! A delightful story of two families support,respect and admiration for each other.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016Great story about tollerance with some real humor thrown in.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017Excellent story
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2013"Jackie's Gift - A True Story of Christmas, Hanukkah and Jackie Robinson" is a delightful Children's Christmas Picture book based on the true story of Baseball's famous Jackie Robinson and his family moving to Brooklyn, New York and sharing their Holiday Spirit with a Jewish Family in 1948.
This 8 3/4 inch by 11 1/4 inch hardback book has 30 pages. Almost every other page is a full page full color painting by Caldecott Honor artist, E. B. Lewis. The full color paintings enhance the storyline quite well and vividly portray the characters and their feelings and actions. The full color pictorial cover and matching dust jacket show a smiling Jackie Robinson placing an angel on top of his Christmas tree with his Jewish neighbor's son son looking on. The last page of the book is a biographical sketch about the events in this book.
It is the Year 1948 and Jackie Robinson and his family move to Brooklyn, New York where he is playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When many of the white families in the neighborhood heard that a black family was moving in, many signed petitions to keep them out. One of the families who opposed the petition drive was the Satlow family - a Jewish family who were the descendents of persecuted Jews. Steve Satlow lived for baseball. Steve finds out that Jackie Robinson and his family are moving on his street and that they would be his neighbors. Never in his wildest imagination did he think he would be living two doors away from his baseball hero. After a winning season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, it is time for Christmas. The Robinsons are busy decorating their tree and Steve Satlow is anxiously helping to decorate it. The Robinsons ask Steve if his family has decorated their tree yet. Steve said, "We don't have one," with a heavy sigh. Later that day, Jackie Robinson rapped on his Jewish neighbor's door with a Christmas tree in hand. When Mrs. Satlow answered the door, she was quite surprised to see the Christmas tree that Jackie brought with him. Out of the kindness of Jackie's heart and in the true spirit of Christmas, Jackie bought a tree for Steve and his family. There is only one problem! The Satlows are Jewish and do not decorate Christmas trees. The moment becomes quite awkward but also rather humorous. You will want to read the book to find out about the ending of the story and how the Jewish Satlow family handles the Christmas tree.
This is a wonderful book to help teach children about respect and appreciation for other religions. The story also reinforces the true Spirit of Giving at Christmas.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014Here's a Jackie Robinson story you may not have heard. _Jackie's Gift_ tells of the friendship between the baseball player and a young boy in his new neighborhood. Written by Robinson's daughter, the story hints at the challenges Jackie faced and describes a wonderfully human experience in the life of a great man. With messages of acceptance and kindness, inclusiveness and caring, gracious giving and equally gracious receiving, it's a wonderful story for whatever midwinter holiday you celebrate.