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On April 18, 1923, the New York Yankees played against the Boston Red Sox in their very first game in the brand-new Yankee Stadium. All the key players were there—Babe Ruth, Waite Hoyt, Bob Shawkey—and so were the supporters—Eddie Bennet, a Yankee batboy; Jack Lenz, Yankee Stadium’s first public announcer; five-year-old Little Ray Kelly, Babe’s lucky charm; and so many more! Every person in the stadium on opening day was part of this legendary event, and now you can be too.With beautiful, true-to-event illustrations reminiscent of Norman Rockwell, and with facts on every page about baseball, the stadium, the teams, and that very first fateful game that christened the original Yankee Stadium, The House That Ruth Built is the perfect book for kids and baseball fans everywhere. Take a step into the past and watch the baseball greats make history!
A native of California, Kelly was born in Santa Cruz, with saltwater in her ears and the sound of the sea humming through her veins. She attended five grammar schools in California and Pennsylvania before fifth grade when her family settled in Orange County, a mile from the ocean.
Which books? NORMAN ONE AMAZING GOLDFISH & NOT NORMAN, featuring our finny fish friend, Norman T Goldfish, illustrated by Noah Z Jones; THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT—baseball, Babe Ruth & Yankee Stadium; VAMPIRE BABY about a biting baby sister/vampire; DAD AND POP an Ode to Fathers & Stepfathers; ONE DAY I WENT RAMBLING celebrating imaginative play; DANCE, Y’ALL, DANCE, a two-steppin’ twirlin’ dance hall tale; YOUR DADDY WAS JUST LIKE YOU & YOUR MOMMY WAS JUST LIKE YOU, the truth about parents; and POETRY LAB, 7-Minute Poetry Prompts you can find—and try!—on her blog, Kelly’s Fishbowl.
What’s more: Kelly is graduate of VCFA’s Writing for Children and Young Adults program, and long-standing member of SCBWI (former ARA for SCBWI-Houston) & The Author’s Guild. She lives, gardens, bikes, cooks, creates from her base in Westhampton Beach, NY; Houston, TX; & Mimiville (which is anywhere my grandboys may be).
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