Awards

• Commended for CBC Best Books of 2016 2016 (Canada)
• Commended for CCBC Best Books for Children and Teens 2016 (Canada)
• Commended for Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List 2017 (United States)
• Short-listed for Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award 2016 (Canada)

Overview

The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. Chuck Ealey grew up poor in a racially segregated community that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks, but his mother assured him that he wouldn’t stay in Portsmouth forever. Education was the way out, and a football scholarship was the way to pay for that education. So despite the racist taunts he faced at all the games he played in high school, Chuck maintained a remarkable level of dedication and determination. And when discrimination followed him to university and beyond, Chuck Ealey remained undefeated. This inspirational story is told by Chuck Ealey’s daughter, author and educator Jael Richardson, with striking and powerful illustrations by award-winning illustrator Matt James.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jael Ealey Richardson ,  Matt James ,  Matt James
Publisher:   Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
Imprint:   Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781554987528

ISBN 10:   1554987520
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   16 June 2016
Recommended Age:   From 5 to 9 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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An excellent addition for sports fans and a great vehicle to spark conversation. - School Library Journal

An excellent addition for sports fans and a great vehicle to spark conversation. School Library Journal . . . an inspirational true-life tale that will resonate with dreamers big and small. Quill and Quire The Stone Thrower is a story of grit, visual and inspirational, in its truest form. CanLit for LittleCanadians

Author Information

JAEL EALEY RICHARDSON is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The book received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award. Excerpts from her first play, my upside down black face, are published in the anthology T-Dot Griots. Richardson has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She lives in Brampton where she serves as the Artistic Director for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD). MATT JAMES is a painter, author/illustrator and musician whose many highly acclaimed children’s books include Yellow Moon, Apple Moon by Pamela Porter (New Mexico Book Award); I Know Here by Laurel Croza (Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award) and its companion volume, From There to Here; and The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson. Matt’s illustrations for Northwest Passage, a stunning tribute to the iconic Stan Rogers song, won the Governor General’s Literary Award. He also wrote and illustrated the highly acclaimed book The Funeral. Matt lives in Toronto.

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