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Billie Jean! how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports

"A picture book biography of tennis champion and social activist Billie Jean King"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rockliff, Mara (Author)
Other Authors:	Baddeley, Elizabeth (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
Subjects:	King, Billie Jean > Juvenile nonfiction. Tennis players > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Women tennis players > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Biographies > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	"A picture book biography of tennis champion and social activist Billie Jean King"--
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Audience:	Ages 4-8.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780525517795 0525517790
Author Notes:	Mara Rockliff is the author of many lively historical books for children, including Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France , winner of the Cook Prize and an Orbis Pictus Honor Book; Gingerbread for Liberty! How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution ; Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles ; and Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann Queen of Magic . Learn more at mararockliff.com or on Twitter @mararockliff. Elizabeth Baddeley is the New York Times -bestselling illustrator of I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy, which won the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award and was named an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book. She has also illustrated An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution by Beth Anderson, The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin, and The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation) by Anne Quirk. Learn more at ebaddeley.com or on Twitter @BizBeth.