How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball

This is a good, old fashioned baseball story. Great book to read to your kids. Just what America needs more of.

How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball by David Shannon (1994) uses sequential color impact well. There is a plot to rid the world of Baseball. The color schemes are dark to indicate a somber mood in the beginning, and as the villain progresses. As the villain is foiled, the illustrations lighten in hue, symbolizing the lifting of the mood of the characters. There are other color cues as well, such as the hero's bright yellow baseball cap. Good illustrations and plot. If the child is not a baseball fan, there may not be enough interest, but well done otherwise.

Wow, what a book! I fell in love with the graphics first and then the book. David Shannon is a talented illustrator as well as an inventive author. This picture book will charm older children (and adults) of all ages. The lessons hidden in this wonderful story about how baseball was saved by a young boy come across easily to all levels. Our junior high is using it as a schoolwide springboard for our annual Literature Week and we'll have everyone from the P.E. department to math and science building lessons around this treasure of a book. If you like a good story, if you love baseball, you'll certainly want to enjoy this book.