Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up.

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend

• Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker, his family sent him to reform school. 
• Race car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive.” 
• And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play. 

Kid Athletes

tells all of their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on every page. Other subjects include

Billie Jean King, Jackie Robinson, Yao Ming, Gabby Douglas, Tiger Woods, Julie Krone, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Lionel Messi

, and more!

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