Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a ball. And there wasn't a single black ballplayer in the major leagues. But nothing could stop Henry Aaron.

About Henry Aaron's Dream, author-illustrator Matt Tavares says, "when I set out to write about Henry Aaron, I expected to focus on his historic quest to break Major League Baseball's all-time home run record. But in researching his life, I found that the most fascinating part of Henry Aaron's story took place before he ever set foot on a Major League Baseball field- back when he was a skinny kid who held his bat the wrong way and who never gave up his dream of becoming a big-league baseball player even when it seemed impossible."