Print/Internet Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Kathleen Fitzgerald, 727-776-1877 (mobile), Kathleen.Fitzgerald@InfoRad.com
www.ChampionBehindTheChampion.com
Book on How to Win AND Lose Gracefully Wins Mom's Choice Silver
Right alongside offerings from companies like Hooked On Phonics, Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher Health Communications Inc., and the American Cancer Society, BarbarAnn Fitzgerald’s self-published The Champion Behind The Champion has been awarded a Silver Medal by the prestigious Mom’s Choice Award for Children’s Picture Books: Values and Life Lessons.
The Mom’s Choice Awards (MCA) recognizes authors, toymakers, software developers, and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services. Expert judges scored entries on production quality, design, educational value, entertainment value, originality, appeal and cost.
Parents, educators, librarians and retailers rely on MCA evaluations to select quality materials for children and families. The Mom’s Choice Award seal helps families and educators navigate the vast array of products and services and make informed decisions.
The message of BarbarAnn Fitzgerald's illustrated young person’s book, The Champion Behind the Champion is that being a champion isn't just about winning. It's about doing your best, learning to excel, thriving through adversity including injuries, and understanding both how to win and how to lose with grace and good character. And if you do all this, you're still a champion, even if someone else walks away with the gold medal.
Suitable for all child athletes (especially skaters), The Champion Behind the Champion follows a lamb through her career as a competitive skater, starting with falling in love with the sport as a toddler watching skating on TV, and going all the way to the national championships as a teenager. LambieAnn walks the reader through a scrapbook of her skating life in a playful, straightforward style, accompanied by endearingly cute original illustrations.
"What a great gift…The love of figure skating permeates this beautiful book."
—Joel Fuhrman, M.D., former member, U.S. World Figure Skating Team, author of six books including Eat to Live. (please see full quote and several others at www.ChampionBehindTheChampion/reviews)
Trained in art at Colby College, Fitzgerald was herself a senior lady competitive skater, and later a PSA Maser Rated skating coach and ballet instructor. She's also a breast cancer survivor and the mother of four boys, a step-daughter and a step-son. She is available for interviews.
The Champion Behind the Champion
Written and illustrated by BarbarAnn Fitzgerald
ISBN 978-1-933626-41-0
Publisher: Llumina Kids (Div. Llumina Books), Coral Springs, FL
8-1/2 x 8-1/2, paperback, $23.95