Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth

Although weak and sickly as a child, Eugen Sandow was able to transform himself into the world's first bodybuilder and a champion of healthy living. In the very proper Victorian Era, he showed people that the human body was something remarkable--and made exercise fashionable for men, women, and children of all classes. Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Don Tate, a former bodybuilder himself, tells the story of Sandow's life with gusto.