Babe Conquers the World
An ALA-YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
A Junior Library Guild selection
A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year
(Cybils) Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Award Nominee, Middle-Grade Nonfiction
Kansas & Missouri Reading Circle Recommended Book
Nebraska Library Commission Best Teen Book
Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup selection
Finalist, Arizona's Grand Canyon Reader Award, Tween Nonfiction
Runner-up, New Hampshire Literary Awards, Outstanding Work of Nonfiction
This exemplar text should be a staple for all collections looking to diversify their biography, sports, and women’s history offerings.
School Library Journal
This energetic biography is at its best when it reveals how Babe’s drive changed so many areas in women’s sports even as society resisted their inclusion. The Wallaces handle the abrasive aspects of Babe’s personality as frankly as they highlight her successes. … Offers the combination of sports, entertainment, and celebrity that will interest young readers, and the Wallaces play it well.
Kirkus
The Wallaces do an excellent job of giving readers a great sense of Babe and who she was, warts and all.
Booklist 'Bookends'
She was brash, she was impossible, she was a winner for the ages. Only a great book could capture the legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias--and this is it.
Jerry Spinelli, Newbery winning author of Maniac Magee and Newbery Honor Wringer
