Adler and Widener score big-their book reads like a labor of love. We were both working to get our family through hard times.'' Widener's acrylics have a striking presence: their massy forms and jaunty, exaggerated perspectives achieve a look that's both nostalgic and edgy. His home runs helped me sell newspapers.'' But baseball isn't really what drives the book-more importantly, ''I knew Dad and I were also a team. After selling a paper to the Babe himself, the boy feels new kinship with him: ''He and I were a team. He conveys the father's humiliation and pride, but the boy's satisfaction in his own job and the family's general happiness keep their lot from seeming pitiful.

Adler, previously paired with Widener for Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man, creates an empathic but unsentimental portrait of life during the Depression. But America still loves baseball, and Babe Ruth is their star.

Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Literature Units The Babe & I Worksheets and Literature Unit by David A. Shocked, the boy numbly follows the friend, a ''newsie,'' to work and ends up learning a great strategy for selling papers: go to Yankee Stadium and shout the latest about Babe Ruth. The Babe & I Contributor(s): Adler, David A. Free The Babe & I study unit worksheets for teachers to print. Adler, Susanna Natti (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating 716 ratings published 1985 21 editions. The Mystery at the Monkey House (Cam Jansen Mysteries, 10) by.

In the Bronx in 1932, a boy out walking with his friend discovers that his ostensibly employed father is actually selling apples on the street. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars.

The Babe and I by David A. Adler