Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber

"A heartfelt, informative, and thoroughly engaging picture book biography." --School Library Journal (starred review)

From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American history!

Mary Garber was a pioneering sports journalist in a time where women were rarely a part of the newspaper business. Women weren't even allowed to sit in the press boxes at sporting events, so Mary was forced to sit with the coaches' wives. But that didn't stop her.

In a time when African American sports were not routinely covered, Mary went to the games and wrote about them. Garber was a sportswriter for fifty-six years and was the first woman to receive the Associated Press Sports Editors' Red Smith Award, presented for major contributions in sports journalism. And now, every year the Association of Women in Sports Media presents the Mary Garber Pioneer Award in her honor to a role model for women in sports media.

Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 02/16/2016
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781481401203
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 180477 / Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2015 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2015
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2016 pg. 112
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2016
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 115

About the Author
Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom and Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com.

C. F. Payne has illustrated more than a dozen picture books, including the New York Times bestselling Mousetronaut by astronaut Mark Kelly; the Texas Bluebonnet winner Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy, written by Phil Bildner; and the New York Times bestsellers The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, both by John Lithgow. He teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where he is the chair of the Illustration Department. Payne lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him online at CFPayne.com.