A sporting chance : how Ludwig Guttmann created the Paralympic Games
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Physical Description
114 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Audience
Grades: 4 to 6.
Summary
"Telling the inspiring human story behind the creation of the Paralympics, this chapter book biography artfully combines archival photos, full-color illustrations, and a riveting narrative to honor the life of Ludwig Guttmann, whose work profoundly changed so many lives"--
Contents
- An ailment not to be treated
- Headstrong
- The miner
- A return to medicine
- Growing tension
- Night of Broken Glass
- Years of change
- Ludwig's incurables
- The return of hope
- A game changer
- The Stoke Mandeville Games
- Wheels in motion
- One good thing
- Going for gold
- Timeline of events.
Subjects
- Neurologists > Great Britain > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Jews, German > Great Britain > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Neurologists.
- Jews, German > Great Britain > Biography.
- Paralympic Games > History > Juvenile literature.
- Paralympic Games > History.
- Guttmann, Ludwig, 1899-1980 > Juvenile literature.
- Guttmann, Ludwig, 1899-1980.