Muhammad Ali Was a Chicken?

By Dan Gutman

2021

First Published

4.13

Average Rating

112

Number of Pages

3H25M

Audio Length

From the best-selling author behind My Weird School : a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Muhammad Ali was so terrified of flying on planes, he carried a parachute! He never read a book―not even his own autobiography! And he had an official taster to determine how salty his sweat was after each bout! Wait! What? Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the wackiest and most surprising facts about the legendary boxer and antiwar activist, from his childhood and the spark of his boxing career through his three heavyweight championships and beyond. Narrated by the two spirited siblings and animated by Allison Steinfeld’s upbeat illustrations, Wait! What? Muhammad Ali Was a Chicken? is an authoritative, accessible, and one-of-a-kind biography infused with Dan Gutman’s signature zany sense of humor. Black-and-white spot art

Avg Rating

4.13

Number of Ratings

106

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Author

Dan Gutman

Author · 163 books

The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of baseball books, including The Green Monster from Left Field. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. As he noted on his author Web site, since writing his first novel, They Came from Centerfield, in 1994, he has been hooked on fiction. "It was fun to write, kids loved it, and I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD." Gutman was born in New York City in 1955, but moved to Newark, New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there.