The Spy Who Played Baseball

One of the coolest Juvenile Biographical picture books out there, representing the secretive life of Moe Berg, a Jewish boy who became a baseball sensation, and then...a spy.......more

I don't feel like the illustrations matched the text of this one. Not sure I've ever read a book in which I noticed something like that before- but for some reason with the seriousness/this level of text, I feel like the illustrations were just too- comic-y? Simple? It just didn't fit for me. I alwa......more

The Spy Who Played Baseball was rad. I would recommend it for anyone, but specifically it's probably good for a K-3 reading level. It touches on interesting issues of equity (for example, when he first began playing baseball, his coach suggested he choose a fake name that sounded less Jewish, so for......more

I have never heard the story of Moe Berg, who was a major league baseball player and became a spy for the U.S. during World War II. It’s such a fascinating story! This story presents an age-appropriate explanation of the events that happened during World War II. It also gives context about the exper......more

Books about little kids during the time of war are always so sad, however, this one was not as much of a tear-jerker as it was a pretty good read and story into the life of a little boy who played baseball but also enlisted to be a spy during WWII. I think for a children's book this was a pretty inf......more