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From: Robin Smith <smithr>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:56:34 -0600
Joan asked about _Little Big Leaguers_ by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, published by Simon and Schuster. My students love that and its sequel. It is for readers who are confident in their abilities. It has the added bonus of baseball cards to punch out.
I must say that _Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia_ is a perennial favorite with new readers, as are all the books in that series by Peggy Parrish. I think there is a _Morris the Moose_ book about ball as well. Step into Reading has a couple of very popular books about sports figures, but they are also for accomplished readers. (level 4) Soccer Sam (level 2, I think), another Step into Reading book, was a big hit with my emergent readers a few years ago when a couple of children acted it out for the class!
The beauty of Home Run_ (by Burleigh and Wimmer) is that new readers can read the larger text and more-experienced readers can read the baseball cards.
-----Original Message---- From: Joan_Abelove at scudder.com
[SMTP:Joan_Abelove at scudder.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:41 AM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu "Kathleen Horning
Subject: Re[2]: Sports Books for Young Children
There is a book I used to read to my son called Little Big Basketball Leaguers.
I think there is another one called Little Big Baseball leaguers. It is short -
two pages - articles about the childhoods of sports stars, with pictures of them
as kids. Great little things, like Kevin McHale played in his driveway until his
hands were frozen, Magic Johnson's mother yelled at him for making marks on the
wall with his basketball, so he played inside with sox.
I don't know the publisher, but the book was great fun.
Joan Abelove
_________________________________
Subject: Re: Sports Books for Young Children
Author: "Kathleen Horning" at inetpo1
Date: 1/13/99 9:23 AM
Thanks, Clark, for you reminder to everyone that the purpose of CCBC-Net is to
discuss books for children and young adults. Since we're discussing children's
books about sports this month, I imagine we can all understand the temptation to
talk about sports in general, however, since there are plenty of email
discussions already in place for fans to chat, I'll ask everyone to try to
resist the temptation, and stick to the subject of books.
In the past two weeks, we've talked quite a bit about what kinds of readers like
sports books, and what kinds of sports books they like; fiction vs. nonfiction;
series vs. non-series; and the challenges of providing timely information about
sporting events and athletes.
In all this discussion, we've been focussing pretty much on books for older kids
-- what about good books for young children?
When I used to work in a public library, I remember it was always a challenge to
meet this demand, because there are so few good picture books about sports of
any kind, and even fewer easy-to-read books. I was reminded again of this
challenge last summer when I had difficulty finding good books about baseball
for a three-year-old baseball fanatic in my family. Elisha Cooper's "Ballpark"
turned out to be a great hit with him but we were hard-pressed to find anything
else.
Does anyone know of any good books about any type of sports for young children,
from three to seven years old?
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu)
Cooperative Children's Book Center
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4290 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I was so disappointed when I read my messages from the CCBC lit-serv
this morning...ALL of them were about football. Is there a spot left on
this planet that has not been infiltrated by some sporting event? I thought
surely the lit-serv was a safe haven. Frankly, I would rather read
people's inadvertent personal messages and requests for directions to
un-subscribe.
Regards,
The VERY UN-sportsminded Clark in Birmingham, Alabama
Received on Wed 13 Jan 1999 10:56:34 AM CST
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:56:34 -0600
Joan asked about _Little Big Leaguers_ by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, published by Simon and Schuster. My students love that and its sequel. It is for readers who are confident in their abilities. It has the added bonus of baseball cards to punch out.
I must say that _Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia_ is a perennial favorite with new readers, as are all the books in that series by Peggy Parrish. I think there is a _Morris the Moose_ book about ball as well. Step into Reading has a couple of very popular books about sports figures, but they are also for accomplished readers. (level 4) Soccer Sam (level 2, I think), another Step into Reading book, was a big hit with my emergent readers a few years ago when a couple of children acted it out for the class!
The beauty of Home Run_ (by Burleigh and Wimmer) is that new readers can read the larger text and more-experienced readers can read the baseball cards.
-----Original Message---- From: Joan_Abelove at scudder.com
[SMTP:Joan_Abelove at scudder.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:41 AM
To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu "Kathleen Horning
Subject: Re[2]: Sports Books for Young Children
There is a book I used to read to my son called Little Big Basketball Leaguers.
I think there is another one called Little Big Baseball leaguers. It is short -
two pages - articles about the childhoods of sports stars, with pictures of them
as kids. Great little things, like Kevin McHale played in his driveway until his
hands were frozen, Magic Johnson's mother yelled at him for making marks on the
wall with his basketball, so he played inside with sox.
I don't know the publisher, but the book was great fun.
Joan Abelove
_________________________________
Subject: Re: Sports Books for Young Children
Author: "Kathleen Horning" at inetpo1
Date: 1/13/99 9:23 AM
Thanks, Clark, for you reminder to everyone that the purpose of CCBC-Net is to
discuss books for children and young adults. Since we're discussing children's
books about sports this month, I imagine we can all understand the temptation to
talk about sports in general, however, since there are plenty of email
discussions already in place for fans to chat, I'll ask everyone to try to
resist the temptation, and stick to the subject of books.
In the past two weeks, we've talked quite a bit about what kinds of readers like
sports books, and what kinds of sports books they like; fiction vs. nonfiction;
series vs. non-series; and the challenges of providing timely information about
sporting events and athletes.
In all this discussion, we've been focussing pretty much on books for older kids
-- what about good books for young children?
When I used to work in a public library, I remember it was always a challenge to
meet this demand, because there are so few good picture books about sports of
any kind, and even fewer easy-to-read books. I was reminded again of this
challenge last summer when I had difficulty finding good books about baseball
for a three-year-old baseball fanatic in my family. Elisha Cooper's "Ballpark"
turned out to be a great hit with him but we were hard-pressed to find anything
else.
Does anyone know of any good books about any type of sports for young children,
from three to seven years old?
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu)
Cooperative Children's Book Center
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4290 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608)&3930
I was so disappointed when I read my messages from the CCBC lit-serv
this morning...ALL of them were about football. Is there a spot left on
this planet that has not been infiltrated by some sporting event? I thought
surely the lit-serv was a safe haven. Frankly, I would rather read
people's inadvertent personal messages and requests for directions to
un-subscribe.
Regards,
The VERY UN-sportsminded Clark in Birmingham, Alabama
Received on Wed 13 Jan 1999 10:56:34 AM CST
