Just as Baseball season begins we're delighted to welcome Sarah Green and her book The Girl How Changed Little League to Collage Collage.
Sarah is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and is now currently based in Vancouver BC. She's been teaching at Emily Carr University, and we're delighted to host her for the first time Saturday April 18th.
Purchase your book as your ticket for the event, and join us for a craft inspired by Maria Pepe - the baseball player that the book is based on. 1-3pm, best for ages 5 and up.
Crafts & Story Telling with Sarah Green
Saturday April 18th
1-3pm
Discover the true story of Maria Pepe, an eleven-year-old girl who changed the course of Little League history.
Maria Pepe loved baseball. When Little League formed in her hometown in 1972, she was eager to prove herself as a competitor. There was only one problem: Little League was not open to girl players. This didn’t stop Maria. She took her glove and joined her friends, Nicky and Louie, at tryouts. She could hit, pitch, and catch as good as any of the boys—better than many, even, and it was no surprise that Maria made the team. Little did she know, she would make history when the Little League officials refused to let her play because she was a girl.
Highlighting resilience and bravery in the face of opposition, this powerful story details the true events that led to girls being able to play Little League—all told from Maria’s first-person perspective as a young athlete.
Sarah Green an illustrator and educator with a love of picture books, foggy days, mermaids, folk art, and knitting. She is an Assistant Professor in the Illustration Department at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the illustrator of over a dozen picture books. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is currently based in Vancouver, Canada.
Find more of her work at: sarahgreenillustration.com
