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Gr 1-5 An entertaining introduction to a fitness guru and entrepreneur. Beginning with young Angelo Siciliano's arrival at Ellis Island, the book describes the scrawny Italian immigrant's boyhood in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood and-when he was older-the storied seaside encounter with a sand-kicking bully (witnessed by his date). Humiliated and determined to change his life, the young man decided to change his body. While at the zoo, he watched a lion stretch and noticed its muscles rippling beneath its skin. "Eureka!" H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

America's first bodybuilding champion and fitness guru Charles Atlas entered the pop-culture lexicon with his own mythology, from his initial humiliation as a scrawny kid who got sand kicked in his face at the beach, to his fitness insight born of watching a lion stretch at the zoo, to later feats of strength such as tearing phone books in two and pulling a train with his bare hands. This new picture book gives readers context for the homage still paid to the folk hero, inc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This picture book biography gives readers context for the homage still paid to the bodybuilding champ and fitness guru. McCarthy's narration is si...Log In or Sign Up to Read More