The Streak

Reviewed by: Kara Reiman - Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 12, 2015

Review

The Streak is an excellent picture book biography. This book tells the tale of legendary Joe DiMaggio and his still standing record streak of getting hits in baseball games. The short text on each page tells just enough about DiMaggio's background and sets the historical scene for his streak. The back matter includes attribution for all of the quotes and newspaper headlines as well as a bibliography and an author's note that included further detail of the time and story as well as DiMaggio's baseball statistics.

Widener's acrylic paintings are beautiful and the muted colors add to the historical feel of the book. The quality is so great that you could spend a long time looking at his brush marks and imagining painting it yourself.

Overall Book Score: excellent