Winning personalities come to life in Big Buddy Biographies

Recommended Reading: Lindsey Vonn: Olympic Champion (Big Buddy Biographies)

Winning personalities come to life in Big Buddy Biographies! This dynamic group of kid-friendly sports standouts, singing sensations, television and movie superstars, and even First Kids will inspire young readers. Each book highlights a person’s background, claim to fame, and dreams for the future. Colorful graphics, oversized photographs, and short, engaging sentences and paragraphs will encourage reluctant readers to dive into these fascinating lives! Included are table of contents, Did You Know facts, glossary with phonetic spellings, and index. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of ABD0 Publishing Company.

Who is Lindsey Vonn?
Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American World Cup alpine ski racer who competed with the United States Ski Team. She has won four overall World Cup championships – one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012.
See: Lindsey Vonn: Olympic Champion (Big Buddy Biographies) Library Binding, by Sarah Tieck
Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. She has also won six consecutive World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013), four consecutive titles in Super G (2009–2012), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). Vonn is one of six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing – downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined – and has won 59 World Cup races in her career through the end of the 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup.

Only two ski racers have more World Cup victories in their careers, Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria with 62 and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 / 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn has become the most successful American skier in history. Vonn received the Laureus World Sports Awards Sportswoman of the Year for 2010. She was also honored again as the USOC’s sportswoman of the year for 2010.