It was all for a penny.

In the summer of 1899, the hundreds of newsboys and girls who sold Randolph Hearst's The Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's The World on the streets of New York City went on strike over a penny—the extra penny that the newspaper owners proposed to charge them to buy the papers. To the young "newsies" that penny was a living, and they fought the press barons. Led by the colorfully named Kid Blink, Race Track Higgins, Crutch Morris, and others, they refused to sell the papers, staged rallies, and finally brought the newspapers to the negotiating table.

Don Brown's highly praised picture book biographies have covered pioneers, outsiders, and unlikely heroes from many walks of life—monks, filmmakers, explorers, astronauts, and others. Kid Blink Beats the World takes as its subject the unlikeliest of outsiders: powerless children confronting some of the world's most powerful adults. Energetic, thoughtful, and beautifully presented, it's Don Brown's most accessible and engaging work.

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