num_pages: 52
description: Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus honored with the Horn Book Fanfare and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests that Jimmy start training and to inspire him he gives Jimmy a box full of books as well as newspaper clippings about Muhammad Ali - The Greatest. Jimmy is swept with admiration for Ali. He begins to read and run and box like crazy even though someone at the gym has taken his shoes. And as he does so he makes a great discovery: you don't have to leave home to be the greatest.Unlike many stories about emigration Jairo Buitrago's simple profound text is about someone who decides to stay in his small remote town in Latin America. Combined with Rafael Yockteng's humorous illustrations this book will be especially appealing to boys and boxing aficionados.The Spanish edition Jimmy el ms grande! was recently nominated for one of Los mejores libros del ao (Best Books of the Year) by Venezuela's Banco del Libro.
language: English
title: Jimmy the Greatest!
publisher: Groundwood Books