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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Cheetahs of Long Distance Running in Ethiopia: Legendary Ethiopian Athletes in Amharic and English

The Cheetahs of Long Distance Running in Ethiopia: Legendary Ethiopian Athletes in Amharic and English

Getahun, Daniel
Bacon, Beth
Ready Set Go Books

Paperback

Early Readers

ISBN13: 9798718586787
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2021
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
One of the fastest animals in the world, the cheetah streaks across the plains and valleys of Ethiopia. But there is another kind of cheetah renowned for speed who are famous for running on 2 legs instead of 4. Some of the world's elite marathon and long distance running athletes hail from Ethiopia, including Abebe Bikila, the first African Olympic gold medalist; Belayneh Densamo, who broke the world record for long distance running; and Haile Gebreselassie, who broke a world record 27 times! Read about the Baby Faced Destroyer, youngest World Champion runner and cousin to Derartu Tulu, the first woman to run a 2 mile race in less than 10 minutes and champion who earned 6 gold medals. Filled with detailed digital portraits of 10 legends of long distance running by Ethiopian artist Daniel Getahun. Bilingual text in English and Ethiopian languages including Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo support fluency and vocabulary.

Open Hearts Big Dreams Ready Set Go (OHBD-RSG) Books were created to help increase the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. Profits from book sales are used to create, print, and distribute more OHBD-RSG books to kids in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country. Ethiopia's population has a high percentage of children ages 0-14. Only a small percentage attend pre-school or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is around 50%.

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