Read about American snowboarder Shaun White and his epic career in this exciting addition to the Who Was? series.
Shaun White, known as "The Flying Tomato" because of his bright red hair, received his first snowboarding sponsorship by age seven. This was just the first of a lifetime of athletic achievements. He has won a medal every year since 2002 at the Winter X games and won gold at the 2006, 2010, and 2018 Olympics. White has been dazzling audiences for years. Learn all about this snowboarding legend's life from his childhood skateboarding days to his illustrious Olympic career, and the creation of his own brand of snowboarding gear.
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Penguin Young Readers Group
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978-0-593-75082-7 (9780593750827)
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Shawn Pryor's (he/him) work includes the middle-grade graphic novel Fast Break (FSG/Macmillan, 2025), the hi\lo reader series The Gamer (Capstone Publishing), Cash and Carrie (Action Lab Entertainment), and several books for Capstone's Jake Maddox Sports and Adventure series, and the Kids Sports series. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cooking, listening to streaming music playlists, and talking about why Zack from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is the greatest Black superhero of all time. He is represented by Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
