When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to
Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of
everyone's fun. The neighborhood children join the Robinson kids
for swimming and boating. But oddly, Jackie never goes near the
water.
In a dramatic episode that first winter, the children beg to go
ice skating on the lake. Jackie says they can go--but only after he
tests the ice to make sure it's safe. The children prod and push to
get Jackie outside, until hesitantly, he finally goes. Like a blind
man with a stick, (contd.)
Jackie taps on the ice's surface, when suddenly howling and
roaring sounds come out of the lake! It is only then that Sharon
realizes why she's never seen her father in the water -- Jackie
doesn't know how to swim! But her horror changes to relief as
Jackie bravely taps his way to the middle of the lake -- and
declare it safe!
In a stunning metaphor for Jackie Robinson's legendary breaking
of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Sharon Robinson
honors her extraordinary father's memory with her warm graceful
storytelling. Two-time Caldecott Honor Book artist Kadir Nelson has
created richly rendered paintings that radiate with the beauty and
spirit of one of America's finest heroes.
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