Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth - Hardcover

Tate, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580896286 ISBN 13: 9781580896283

Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2017

Synopsis

Little Friedrich Müller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But he to no avail.

As a young man, he found himself under the tutelage of a professional body builder. Friedrich worked and worked. He changed his name to Eugen Sandow and he got bigger and stronger. Everyone wanted to become “as strong as Sandow.”

Inspired by his own experiences body-building, Don Tate tells the story of how Eugen Sandow changed the way people think about strength and exercise and made it a part of everyday life.

Backmatter includes more information about Sandow, suggestions for exercise, an author’s note, and a bibliography.

About this title

About the Author:

Don Tate is the author and illustrator of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton (Peachtree), for which he received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. He received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw (Lee & Low), illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Tate is also the illustrator of several picture books, including Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans), and The Cart That Carried Martin. Don lives in Austin, Texas.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

In his day Eugen Sandow was known as "the Strongest Man on Earth." He could break metal chains by expanding his broad chest. He could hoist a grand piano over his head. He boasted that he once wrestled a five-hundred-pound lion. No doubt Eugen Sandow was hte strongest of all strongmen. But he wasn't always strong.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1580896286
• ISBN 13: 9781580896283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Tate Don