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Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

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Lou Gehric was one of the best baseball player of all time despite his disease.Lou was a cool guy.He never mised a day at school for eight years.Samething in baseball he played about 2,120 games a record.He was a fighter in many ways but he's greatest battle was against his disease.Lou's record has been broken by Cal Ripken J.R.

This book is the sad story of Lou Gehrig, a true hero of New York. The up-beat drawings of the 1920's and 30's, really bring out the vibrant text.

I bought this book for the illustrations, but then my husband was diagnosed with A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease) and the only way I could explain the illness to my 6-year-old son was through this book. We read it over and over again. And feeling that his dad was like the "luckiest man" somehow made the whole horrible thing easier for him to grasp. Probably not the author's intent at all, but I'm grateful for David Adler's spare and eloquent text. If only there'd been something like it for my two older boys. . .

I first read this book in my niece's school book. After I read just some of it I knew I had to buy it. This story tells how Lou Gehrig was as a baseball player and a person. It was really inspiring and good and it had me in tears at the end. I would recommend this book to anyone and I am going to pass these on to my grandchildren too so they will know who Lou Gehrig was.

I understood how Lou Gehrig died. I thought he was one of the best basball players. He was really calm when the doctor said he was going to die. I thought he was one of the best basball players who have ever joined the yankes team.

I enjoyed this story because Lou Gehrig never missed a day of school. Later,when he grew up,he enjoyed playing sports,he would always get up early to play sports. When he reached college, he had to skip it to play baseball. His team was the Yankees. He had a disease and died on June 2,1941. The setting was in the Yankee's stadium and in his funeral. The conflict of the story is Lou wanted to play baseball. The resolution of the story is Lou skipped college to play with the Yankee's team.

Amazon does list this book as reading level 4-8. Perhaps the author intended this to be appropriate for 4-year-olds. Adler is a very experienced children's book author (i.e. Cam Jansen series) and would not have unintentionally written it specifically for this age level.
My father was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's Disease" at the age of 43. I was 5. A book like this would have been very age appropriate for me. I just wish the only way I had learned about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was in a book.

After readind this book to my son, only once, I felt very sad about what happened. Maybe because my son is only 4, his reaction to this book was a lot of sadness, rather than liking the story, or learning about Baseball. I had to spend quite a bit of time explaining to him we (mom and dad) will not die and go to heaven just yet. He was so concerned we would not be around, and started asking so many questions about DEATH. My whole purpose of buying this book was to teach him about the sport, since he is getting so interested in it, and the experience was not even close to it. It is a good book to have and read about Lou Gehrig's history, but not for a 4 year old who just wants to understand and learn more about Baseball.