cover image BECOMING JOE DIMAGGIO

BECOMING JOE DIMAGGIO

Maria Testa, Maria Test, . . Candlewick, $5.99 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2444-6

The author's 24 vignettes, in verse, introduce a young baseball player born in 1936. PW wrote, "The boy's melodic narrative tightly braids together strands integral to his life: family, baseball and the ways in which the exploding world affects him and those close to him." Ages 10-14. (Mar.)