K-Gr 2-This story zeros in on one episode in Ruth's youth and will quickly capture the interest of children. Young George sees a dollar sitting on the bar of his father's tavern and uses it to buy frozen treats for all of the kids on the street. The cartoon artwork portrays the time period (1902) and provides sight clues for new readers. However, the story is sprinkled with a few difficult words (such as "through" and "sighed"), creating stumbling blocks for beginners, and it ends much too abruptly, leaving youngsters frustrated and unsatisfied.-Anne Knickerbocker, formerly at Cedar Brook Elementary School, Houston, TX Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

After seven-year-old George (later known as Babe) Ruth loses the neighborhood's only baseball by hitting it through someone's window, he tries to make it up to his friends by buying everyone a rare ice-cream treat with a dollar bill he takes from the family tavern. As with other books in this series, this easy-to-read morality tale fictionalizes a childhood episode. Timeline.