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Sports Pioneers
The Pan American Games kick off this Friday, October 20, so now seems like an opportune time to bone up on some of the trailblazers who have paved the way for today's athletes. Here are three picture-book biographies to help. Find more related books and articles from Hbook.com here; or...
Sports and struggles
The five middle-grade protagonists in these selections (a mix of novels, graphic novel, and graphic memoir) are all passionate about a particular athletic activity. But they’re also experiencing struggles and/or setbacks in their personal lives. While practice doesn’t always make perfect, their beloved sports help teach these kids how to...
Basketball disappointment
My family roots for North Carolina, and needless to say, today we are a little bummed (and tired!). What a run — what a heartbreaker. Sometimes books can help; here are recommendations from the Guide/Reviews Database subject searches on: Sports--Basketball, Behavior--Sportsmanship, Behavior--Teamwork, Emotions--Disappointment, and...Sleep. Congrats to Kansas, the NCAA Division 1 Men's...
Fiction for sports fans
Some sports are seasonal, but reading novels about them is an all-year-round affair, and these four recent offerings for middle graders and middle schoolers are worth adding to the rotation. Lupe Wong Won’t Dance by Donna Barba Higuera Intermediate, Middle School Levine Querido 272 pp. g 9/20 978-1-64614-003-9 $17.99 e-book...
Baseball's Opening Day 2020
Today is Opening Day for baseball’s shortened season this year – Yankees @ Nationals (2019 World Series champs), with Dr. Anthony Fauci throwing out the first pitch!; Giants @ Dodgers. You can read with the Nats through their Summer Reading partnership with the Prince George’s County (MD) Memorial Library System. Baseball...
10-year-old boy interviews Derrick Barnes
Before -- my ten-year-old baseball fanatic and I had been excited to chat with Newbery and CSK Honor winner (for Crown) Derrick Barnes about his new book Who Got Game?: Baseball: Amazing But True Stories!, illustrated by John John Bajet, at Belmont Books. We had come up with some questions for...
Sports, Sports, and More Sports
Bailer, Darice Kickball Gr. K–3 32 pp. Child's Bailer, Darice Street Football Gr. K–3 32 pp. Child's Bailer, Darice Ultimate Gr. K–3 32 pp. Child's Ellenport, Craig Pick-Up Basketball Gr. K–3 32 pp. Child's Laughlin, Kara L. Capture the Flag Gr. K–3 32 pp. Child's Laughlin, Kara L. Four Square...
Review of Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williamsby Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. RansomePrimary, Intermediate Wiseman/Simon 48 pp.7/18 978-1-4814-7684-3 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-7685-0 $10.99Wife-and-husband team Cline-Ransome and Ransome celebrate tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams, focusing on their formative childhoods and the way their preparation and talent fundamentally changed...
Review of The Field
The Fieldby Baptiste Paul; illus. by Jacqueline AlcántaraPrimary NorthSouth 32 pp. g3/18 978-0-7358-4312-7 $17.95The place: a verdant Caribbean islandscape. The day’s activity for the community’s children: a pickup game of futbol (soccer). Does it matter that the futbol field is a converted cow pasture? Does it matter that some of...
Opening Day 2018
Batter up! Hear that call!The time has come for one and allTo play ball.—Official victory song of the All-American Girls Baseball League,co-written by Lavonne “Pepper” Paire Davis and Nalda “Bird” PhillipsIt’s Opening Day at Fenway Park! (We can once again hear the helicopters from the Horn Book office.) Our Boston...
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