. . .Little Girls In Pretty Boxes by sports journalist Joan Ryan.
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Her first book, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters (1995, Doubleday) was a controversial, ground-breaking expose that Sports Illustrated named one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. It was one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time in the Guardian newspaper in London. The Sporting News chose it as one of the top three sports books of 1995.
The book and Joan were featured on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Nightline, the Today Show, People magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Time magazine and other media around the country. The book was published in Great Britain, Canada and Japan and excerpted in Redbook magazine. The paperback version was published in 1996 (Warner) and an updated version was reissued in 2000 and again in 2018 in the aftermath of sex abuse crimes that resulted in a lifetime sentence for USA Gymnastics medical trainer, Larry Nassar.
Little Girls changed the sport of gymnastics. Responding to the media attention prompted by the book, USA Gymnastics developed a handbook for parents informing them about the potential pitfalls of the sport on the elite level, such as eating disorders, serious injuries and abusive coaches. It also developed, for the first time, a training and credentialing program for coaches. . . Little Girls has been widely used in sports sociology classes at colleges and universities.
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