Chris Crowe's Next Biography

Just As Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game, written by Chirs Crowe and Illustrated by Mike Benny (http://mikebenny.com/) is due out in January of 2012. I love Crowe's other books: Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, Thurgood Marshall: A Twentieth Century Life, and the novel Mississippi Trial, 1955, and though I haven't read this picture book, I'm so looking forward to it!

Though Crowe has written fiction, he's quickly become a first rate biographer, whose focus is the Civil Rights Movement and various of its predecessor events and figures. Partner this latest book with We Are the Ship and Strong Right Arm, and you've got a great unit on baseball, the part African Americans have played in it, and the struggle for equal rights.