Baseball for Breakfast

Coming February 17, 2026. Pre-order today! Baseball for Breakfast A (Mostly) True Story By: Judy Campbell-Smith / Illustrated by: Maggie Carroll Take me out to the ball game . . . Jimmy’s family loves going to Milwaukee Brewers games together, but all that changes during World War II when Pop goes overseas to fight and Ma starts working nights in a factory. Then Jimmy has a chance meeting with the team’s owner and helps inspire a new idea: morning baseball games! Jimmy is about to experience baseball in a whole new way (it may involve cornflakes). A perfect solution so night shift workers can end their day with a game while others begin theirs. Based on real historical events, this fictionalized story celebrates family, fun, and American resilience in a turbulent time. If you like this book, you’ll enjoy these: Waiting for Pumpsie The Baseball Counting Book [TABS] Look Inside Downloadables Download the Cover Author & Illustrator Judy Campbell-Smith, author Judy Campbell-Smith writes the picture books she wishes she had a child that spark curiosity and celebrate diversity. Her books are an engaging mix of fact and fiction, and she is often inspired by true stories and real people in her work. She is the author of Ice Cream Everywhere: Sweet Stories from Around the World. Judy is very active in the kidlit community and lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. Read more about Judy. Maggie Carroll, illustrator Maggie Carroll is an illustrator from Wisconsin, America's Dairyland. She holds an MA from Edinburgh College of Art and a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She enjoys combining the past with the present through illustration and design from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with modern techniques and tools. She also loves to eat cheese and to draw silly and inky things. When not drawing, she listens to 80s music, goes for walks, and spends time with her dogs and family. www.maggiecarrollillustration.com Read more about Maggie. Awards & Honors A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection Editorial Reviews Coming soon! Details Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62354-570-3 Ages: 5–8 Page count: 32 8 x 10 Publication date: February 17, 2026 [/TABS]