From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:12:51 -0600

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
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