Background and Description
Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War is a piece of historical fiction for the middle grade reader. The story follows a series of letters written by one brother to another during the latter part of 1918. It's the last year of World War I and the Boston Red Sox, with Babe Ruth on the mound, are going to the World Series. Andrew, at home in the Boston area, writes to his older brother, Frank, a soldier on Europe's western front, to catch him up on all the news. An informative and moving account of little explored terrain.
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Honors and Awards
Winner, Literary Classics Book Award
for Historical Ficiton
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Since Dear Frank is written in an epistolary format we decided to give the book the look of handwritten letters. First of all, we researched a variety of handwriting styles representative of the early 20th century and then found a font that closely mimicked the handwriting style that appealed to us the most (pictured above). Andrew's letters actually have the feel of handwritten artifacts—which, of course, is what we wanted.
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Ordering Information
Title: Dear Frank
Subtitle: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox,
and the Gret War
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Illustrator: Hugh Spector
Design: Greensfelder Design
Publisher: Gyroscope Books
Wholesaler: Ingram Content Group
Release Date: February 2012
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Level: 11 and up
Page Count: 118
available in the following formats:
ISBN: 978-0-9912183-9-4 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0-9912183-6-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-6211090-6-8 (e-book)
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For orders by U.S. trade bookstores, retail outlets, and public libraries,
please contact the Ingram Content Group: Retail (800) 937-8000,
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And now you can purchase Dear Frank as an audio book,
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