America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
by David A Adler (Author) Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Describes the life and accomplishments of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel and a figure in the early women's rights movement.
Trudy Ederle loved to swim, and she was determined to be the best. At seventeen Trudy won three medals at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. But what she planned to do next had never been done by a woman: She would swim across the English Channel in fourteen hours and set a world record.
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Publishers Weekly
Text and art offer a compelling, in-depth account of the adult Ederle's crossing of the English Channel. Kids will dive right in.
Copyright 2005 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.
ALA/Booklist
The two-page spread showing Ederle eating a chicken leg while crossing the channel will make kids smile, and the picture of her triumphant emergence from the water captures both the effort and the energy that went into the extraordinary swim.
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JNF054150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Water Sports
Women
Swimmers
Ederle, Gertrude
Women swimmers
