From: Roger Sutton <rsutton>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:16:48 -0700

I just reviewed a nice I Can Read from HarperCollins: _Sports! Sports! Sports!: A Poetry Collection_, compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins. And coming up in April is a great picture book for even younger kids, Emily Arnold McCully's _Mouse Practice_ (Levine/Scholastic), about a mouse-kid whose (baseball) game is inspired by a most unlikely source.

Hope this is helpful.

Roger Sutton (whose predecessor Anita Silvey was an avid baseball fan, but who is himself clueless about any aspect of sport beyond women's pro tennis)

10:23am >>>
. . . 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
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