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From: Robin Smith <smithr>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:08:09 -0600
I just thought of a fun sports book for the younger reader, combining poetry and basketball. It is the Bill Martin and Michael Sampson
(illustrated by Michael Chesworth) book Swish. We live in an area of the country where women's and girls' basketball is very popular and my students liked the drama and rhyme of Swish.
Robin Smith Ensworth School Nashville, TN
-----Original Message---- From: Ginny Moore Kruse
[SMTP:gmkruse at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 1:13 PM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu
Subject: sports books: NBA Game Day
I don't think anyone has mentioned the book NBA Game Day by Joe Layden
and James Preller (Scholastic, 1998).
NBA Game Day is a highly visual, lavishly illustrated, genuinely
exciting, 64-page photodocumentary book approximately ten inches square
in size.
The book involves the behind-the-scenes activity of practice, training,
& game day routines, community service, and much more, all expressed in
full-color photographs by 26 sports photographers. It's a book one can
open on any page. (ahem, non-linear?)
The small amount of text on each smartly?signed page is fairly easy to
read with one or two headlining words or phrases summarizing the main
idea. I think that kids and adults with limited English language reading
skills can "read" the photographs and very likely decode the
"headlines"
in context. Although NBA Game Day is probably listed at approximately
grades three through middle school, fans younger and older than that can
enjoy it, too. I did.
To the astonishment of my family, during the past ten years I've become
interested in following some of the NBA and NFL games and players. Why?
Because I've been reading many of the superb feature articles and
columns by Robert Lipsyte and others in the New York Times Sports
Section. This book interests me personally because of being drawn into
that level of fan-dom in that way.
Yes, some of the players and coaches are now with different teams or
retired. But the essence of the "behind the scenes" information is
accurate. ...Ginny
***********************
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A Library of the School of Education
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
CCBC phone: 608&3721
Received on Fri 15 Jan 1999 07:08:09 AM CST
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:08:09 -0600
I just thought of a fun sports book for the younger reader, combining poetry and basketball. It is the Bill Martin and Michael Sampson
(illustrated by Michael Chesworth) book Swish. We live in an area of the country where women's and girls' basketball is very popular and my students liked the drama and rhyme of Swish.
Robin Smith Ensworth School Nashville, TN
-----Original Message---- From: Ginny Moore Kruse
[SMTP:gmkruse at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 1:13 PM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu
Subject: sports books: NBA Game Day
I don't think anyone has mentioned the book NBA Game Day by Joe Layden
and James Preller (Scholastic, 1998).
NBA Game Day is a highly visual, lavishly illustrated, genuinely
exciting, 64-page photodocumentary book approximately ten inches square
in size.
The book involves the behind-the-scenes activity of practice, training,
& game day routines, community service, and much more, all expressed in
full-color photographs by 26 sports photographers. It's a book one can
open on any page. (ahem, non-linear?)
The small amount of text on each smartly?signed page is fairly easy to
read with one or two headlining words or phrases summarizing the main
idea. I think that kids and adults with limited English language reading
skills can "read" the photographs and very likely decode the
"headlines"
in context. Although NBA Game Day is probably listed at approximately
grades three through middle school, fans younger and older than that can
enjoy it, too. I did.
To the astonishment of my family, during the past ten years I've become
interested in following some of the NBA and NFL games and players. Why?
Because I've been reading many of the superb feature articles and
columns by Robert Lipsyte and others in the New York Times Sports
Section. This book interests me personally because of being drawn into
that level of fan-dom in that way.
Yes, some of the players and coaches are now with different teams or
retired. But the essence of the "behind the scenes" information is
accurate. ...Ginny
***********************
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A Library of the School of Education
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
CCBC phone: 608&3721
Received on Fri 15 Jan 1999 07:08:09 AM CST
