978-1-896764-82-5
$14.95 Paperback
148 Pages • 7.5" x 9"
Ages: 9 to 13
- Character Education
- Language Arts
- Biography
- Strong Female Role Models
- Strong Female Role Models
- Biography
- Social Studies
- Canada
- Canada
Reading Levels
Grade: 5
Guided Reading Level: U
Sportswriters and broadcasters in this country agree that Bobbie Rosenfeld may be Canada's greatest female athlete of the twentieth century.
A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in a small Russian town and came to Canada with her immigrant parents when she was less than a month old. Her love for all sports showed itself early. As a young girl she excelled in track and field, ice hockey, tennis, basketball and softball. At the 1928 Summer Olympics, held in Amsterdam, she won both gold and silver medals. But Bobbie Rosenfeld's popularity was due to more than her athletic brilliance, or later, her skills as a sportswriter with the Globe & Mail; she was admired for her strength of character - her decency, honesty and sense of fair play.
Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything is a great story for anyone, of any age. For young girls in need of role models, it is simply a must-read.
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Awards
2005 IODE Violet Downey Award
2005 Canadian Jewish Book Award
2004 Sydney Taylor Honor Book, Association of Jewish Libraries
2004 Norma Fleck Award for Children's Non-Fiction Honour Book
2005 Nomination: Ontario Library Association Golden Oak Award for Adult Literacy
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