Ice Skating: From Axels to Zambonis

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Viking, 1995 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 176 pages
Introduces the history, famous performers, anecdotes, and trivia of the sport of ice skating.

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Contents

Skating Becomes a Sport
12
The First Superstars
29
Tara Lipinski
65
Copyright

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Ice Skating: An Inside Look at the Stars, the Sport, and the Spectacle
Dan Gutman
Snippet view - 1997
Ice Skating
Dan Gutman
No preview available - 1997

Common terms and phrases

Aleksandr Alexsei American Andrei ballet blades Brian Boitano Carol Heiss Champi Christopher Dean coach costumes Dick Button Dorothy Hamill double axel Duchesnay Figure Skating Figure Skating Museum finished free skate Games Hall of Fame hockey Hometown ICE DANCING ice rink ice shows Ice Skating International Skating Union Irina Rodnina Isabelle Jim Graves John Curry judges Karl Schafer Katarina Witt Kristi Yamaguchi Kurt Browning land lutz Madge Syers Maribel Vinson mother Museum and Hall Nancy Kerrigan Natalia Nathaniel Niles Oksana Baiul Olympic gold medal Olympic gold medalist onship pairs skating Paul Harvath Peggy Fleming performance Richard Button scores Scott Hamilton Sherwin Badger Sonja Henie spin sport Tara Tenley Albright Theresa Blanchard toe loop toe pick Torvill and Dean triple jump U.S. Championships Ulrich Salchow United States Figure wanted World Champion World Championships World Figure Skating Zamboni

About the author (1995)

Children's author Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote some non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series. He also presents a program which uses sports to get students excited about reading and writing to schools. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Bibliographic information

TitleIce Skating: From Axels to Zambonis
AuthorDan Gutman
Editionillustrated
PublisherViking, 1995
Original fromPennsylvania State University
DigitizedMar 22, 2011
ISBN0670860131, 9780670860135
Length176 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / Ice Skating
  
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