Poletti, Frances and
Kristina Yee The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibbs, the First Woman to Run the Boston
Marathon. PICTURE BOOK. Compendium, 2017 $17.
Bobbi Gibbs loved to
run. She didn’t train with a coach, she
didn’t belong to any team ever. She just
loved to run. In a time when races for
women couldn’t be over 1.5 miles, long distances were her thing. So she decided one day just to try the Boston
Marathon. She tried to enter officially,
but she was turned down. So instead, she
hid in the bushes besides the start and joined the pack - not to prove a point, not to break a
barrier – just because of her love of running.
Poletti and Yes,
along with illustrator Susanna Chapman combine words and pictures that exude
Gibbs’ love for running into a simple book about a woman breaking a significant
barrier – not to prove a point or make a scene.
Its unthinkable for girls nowadays to think that athleticism would make
a woman less womanly. Gibbs is a role
model in many ways with her quiet persistence and leadership without fuss.
EL, MS –
ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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