The Wildest Race Ever The Wildest Race Ever

The Wildest Race Ever

The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon

    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

From Megan McCarthy the award-winning author of Pop! and Earmuffs for Everyone comes the quirky, fascinating, and inspiring story of perseverance and the importance of sportsmanship set at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon.

It was 1904 and St. Louis was proud to host the World’s Fair and America’s First Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of people came by car, by train, by boat. Part of the Olympics was a wild, wacky marathon. Forty-two racers registered, thirty-two showed up, and of the three racers vying for the finish line: on drove part way, one was helped by his trainers over the line, and one was a postman who travelled from Cuba and ran in street clothes that he cut off to look like shorts. How they ran and who won is a story of twists and turns that only wouldn’t be believed if it weren’t true! And it is! Find out who won in this wacky and well-researched picture book all about the historic Olympic Marathon of 1904.

  • GENRE
    Kids
    RELEASED
    2016
    March 1
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    48
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
    SELLER
    Simon & Schuster Canada
    SIZE
    65.6
    MB

    More Books Like This

    Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
    2012
    The Misadventures of Mister Fast The Misadventures of Mister Fast
    2019

    More Books by Meghan McCarthy

    Pop! Pop!
    2011
    All That Trash All That Trash
    2018
    Daredevil Daredevil
    2013
    Action! Action!
    2022
    City Hawk City Hawk
    2020
    Firefighters' Handbook Firefighters' Handbook
    2019