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by: David A. Adler  List Price: $17.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.56 You Save: $5.44 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780152013783 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0152013784 Label: Gulliver Books Manufacturer: Gulliver Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: April 01, 1999 Publisher: Gulliver Books Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Gulliver Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: "For my birthday I was hoping my parents would give me a bicycle. They only gave me a dime." So begins David Adler's inspired tale of the challenges and magic--yes, magic--of a depression-era childhood spent in the Bronx, New York. Disappointed, but not surprised by his present, the young narrator in The Babe & I spends his birthday afternoon wandering neighborhood streets with his best friend Jacob, discussing--as always--the New York Yankees and the world's greatest baseball player, Babe Ruth. The boys may have little in the way of monetary goods, but they do live within walking distance of Yankee stadium. They get a special lift from their proximity to this golden team of graced athletes, even if they can never go inside the gate. On this day, however, the stakes are raised significantly when the narrator discovers a difficult, saddening secret about his father. In response, he decides to join Jacob and become a newspaper boy--a decision that helps his family through these tough years and leads the narrator into the best, most unbelievable encounter of his life--better than any bike or birthday or anything. Adler's honest, vivid reflection of 1930s life is perfectly complemented by Terry Widener's evocative, earth-toned illustrations. Reminiscent of WPA murals, Widener's images help Adler transport the reader to another time and place in a symbiotic pairing that makes this tender book a true work of art. (Ages 5 and older) --Jean Lenihan Product Description: It’s 1932 and everyone is struggling through the Great Depression. When the resourceful young narrator of this story discovers that his father is jobless, he decides to become a newsie. He and his friend Jacob figure out how to sell more papers than the other kids. Many more. Because they’ve got Babe Ruth to help them. Business is soon booming and, thanks to the Babe, they even get a chance to see a Yankees game. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 3 1/2* Sanitized Gotham, Small Role for the Babe"For my birthday I was hoping my parents would give me a bicycle. They only gave me a dime." The opening of "The Babe and I" alludes to the Great Depression, specifically 1932 Bronx, where the unnamed protagonist loves his family first and baseball second. At least his dad is employed, every morning he pits on a suit and takes his briefcase to his office. "We were lucky. My father had a job. But we never seemed to have much money." Accompanying his friend Jacob on his paper route, he discovers that ... Read More Rating:  - The Babe and IThe Babe and I was a good story because the kid for his birthday he only got a dime and in the 1932, a dime was like two dollars.The kid and his mother always thought that his father had a job but the whole time he had been fired and he was out selling apples.Then they went for a walk him and Jacob and the kid found out that his dad sells apples and he got upset because he saw how hard it was for his dad to make a dime.So then the kid got a job as a newspaper seller and he was tought to sell like a pro ... Read More Rating: - The Babe and IThe book takes place during the Great Depresion,and its about a boy that thinks his family is lucky because his dad didn't loose his job.However in the day of the boy's birth day,the boy finds out that his dad had lost his job and now his selling apples.the boy was really sad, but his friend Jacob offers him to sell news papers with him.The boy starts to sell,and to carry it he borrows the neighbors'carriage.One day thet the boy is selling news paper ,he sells one paper to Babe Ruth and with the money ... Read More Rating: - The Babe and IThis book was about a family living in the Bronx. This family was very poor. Only the dad. On that day it was the boys birthay. So his dad gave him 10 cents. Because on those days that was enough money 2 eat and pay rent. So one day the dad leaves to work and his son and mom stay home. Then the boys best friend comes over to his house and ask him if he wants to go to work with him. So they did. And on the way home to his friends job they bought an apple for 5 cents. Also on the way he saw his dad ... Read More Rating: - The Babe and IThe babe and I was a book about a kid living in New York during the middle of the great depression. He thinks his dad is a business man but soon finds out that hes a "apple seller". This book is a great childrens because of the fact that it is realistic and teaches kids what life was like in the Great Depression. 
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