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From: Joan Abelove <Joan_Abelove>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:41:16 -0500
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 09:41:16 AM CST
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:41:16 -0500
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 09:41:16 AM CST
