Name: Billie Jean King
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780711246928

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Billie Jean King tells the story of this inspiring tennis player and activist.

Billie Jean King

Miranda Sofroniou

Briar's Reviews

Ironically, I'm reading a cute little book about a strong women around International Women's Day! Not on purpose, but still totally amusing.

Billie Jean King by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara is a lovely little tale about the amazing tennis player Billie Jean King. We get to see her amazing story of working hard to achieve her goals to be the best tennis player she could be! She wore shorts instead of skirts, saved up her own money to buy her own supplies and worked her butt off! She won awards for her hard work, started community organizations and was just all around awesome!

My pros:
1. The pictures are soft, full of colour and memorable. I really liked how they stood out and complimented the story.

2. This book was easy to read but had strong enough language that a few age groups could easily find this book enjoyable. On top of that, I'm sure many adults can be sent into flashbacks about The Battle of the Sexes tournament that happened in the Tennis World! 

3. We get to see a little girl who worked hard (gardened and did housework) to save up her money to get her first tennis racquet! Isn't it great we get to share with the kids some hard working kids books?!

4. The tennis outfits are rocking!

My cons:
1. Sometimes the soft lines of the illustrations felt like they blurred a bit, but that could be because I was on an e-reader. 

Overall, this book is an absolute delight and I'd highly recommend it! Who doesn't want to watch an awesome woman do awesome things? Let's show our kids hard work pays off! Also, I would love to read the many other parts of this collection about all of the other cool people (women and men alike) who are apart of this series! 

Five out of five stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this amazing opportunity to pick up this lovely book!

Billie Jean King

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