Download or read book Sports Rhymes of Soccer written by Paul Auday and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Rhymes of Soccer features five poems about the following subjects: the historic heroes of the FIFA World Cup; the two FIFA Players of the 20th Century, Pelé and Diego Maradona; the connections between basketball and soccer; and the recent success of the United States Women’s National Team in both the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Summer Olympic Games.
Download or read book Good Sports written by Jack Prelutsky and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhilarating, all-new, kid-friendly rhymes capture the range of emotions, from winning to losing to the sheer joy of participating, that children experience as they discover the games of their choice. Jack Prelutsky, a virtuoso at making poetry fun for the elementary school crowd, includes in this inspired collection poems about baseball, soccer, football, skating, swimming, gymnastics, basketball, karate, and more. His signature lighthearted humor in verse that trips off the tongue is coupled here with the 2006 Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka's lickety-split, stylized (and stylish) watercolors. Every page is a blaze of color and motion. Whether Good Sports will create good sports remains to be seen, but it will prove to young boys (and girls) that reading poetry can be fun.
Download or read book Little Soccer written by Brad Herzog and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board Books for Little Sports! Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.Brad Herzog lives on California's Monterey Peninsula with his wife, Amy, and his two sons, Luke and Jesse. As a freelance writer, he has won several awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, including a Grand Gold Medal for best magazine article of the year. Brad has published more than two dozen books, including two memoirs about his travels through small-town America. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio, Doug Bowles has been a freelance illustrator for 20 years. In addition to Doug's illustrations for children, he enjoys working with a wide range of clients in the advertising, corporate and editorial communities. His work has been selected many times in the Society of Illustrators West competition, and he has had several gallery showings. Doug lives in Leawood, Kansas, with his wife and two children.
Download or read book The Tighty Whitey Spider written by Kenn Nesbitt and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another side-splitting collection of poetry from beloved children's poet Kenn Nesbitt! Following up the bestselling collection, My Hippo Has the Hiccups, Kenn Nesbitt dares to go where no poet has gone before, creating a whole host of laugh-out-loud scenarios involving animals doing extreme sports. Kids love Kenn's clever word play and wonderful imagery. This collection also includes an audio CD of Kenn reading the poems in his inimitable style. And Ethan Long provides the perfect complement to Kenn's poetry with his brilliant line drawings. With poems like "My Puppy Punched Me in the Eye" and "I Bought Our Cat a Jetpack," this collection shines bright with rhymes that are full of jokes, thrills, and surprises. Animals Doing Extreme Sports will keep kids laughing—and loving poetry.
Download or read book Little Baseball written by Brad Herzog and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.
Download or read book My Cat Knows Karate written by Kenn Nesbitt and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenn Nesbitt returns with another round of the ridiculous rhymes, wacky wordplay, and preposterous punchlines that kids love to read. My Cat Knows Karate includes seventy new poems about goofy gadgets, kooky characters, funny families, absurd situations, and much, much more.
Download or read book Sports Jokes Riddles and Games written by Anne-Marie Rodger and published by No Kidding!. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you serve but never eat? A volleyball! When your team is down and out, sometimes the only thing you have is humor. Using sports jokes, puns, riddles, and rhymes, this riotous book helps readers learn how to understand the culture of humor and how to use it in their own writing.
Download or read book Soccer Counts written by Barbara Barbieri McGrath and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to counting using the history, rules, and fun facts about soccer, the world's most popular game.
Download or read book T is for Touchdown written by Brad Herzog and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sounds of autumn include the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot and the thump of the kickoff starting the first home football game. Sleeping Bear Press is proud to continue our bestselling sports series with Tis for Touchdown: A Football Alphabet. Sports writer Brad Herzog's easy-to-read-aloud rhymes engage even the youngest of readers, while hardcore fans can devour the detailed expository that covers the sport of the pigskin, from A-Z and end zone to end zone. Plays and players are just a few of the topics covered. Brad Herzog's first job as a newspaper sports reporter allowed him to travel with the Cornell University football team. He has been writing about the game ever since. A past Grand Gold Medal Award winner from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Brad has written more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction children's books. Brad lives on California's Monterey Peninsula. Mark Braught's sixteen years of professional experience has earned him prestigious awards from The American Advertising Federation (ADDY), Communications Art, the NYArt Directors Club, and the Society of Illustrators, to name a few. He lives in Commerce, Georgia. Touchdown is his third book with Sleeping Bear Press.
Download or read book Sports Poems written by Mary Colson and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines sports poems, showing readers how to find the meaning in a poem and discussing the techniques the poets used to create them.
Download or read book Little Basketball written by Brad Herzog and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board Books for Little Sports! Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.Brad Herzog lives on California's Monterey Peninsula with his wife, Amy, and his two sons, Luke and Jesse. As a freelance writer, he has won several awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, including a Grand Gold Medal for best magazine article of the year. Brad has published more than two dozen books, including two memoirs about his travels through small-town America. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio, Doug Bowles has been a freelance illustrator for 20 years. In addition to Doug's illustrations for children, he enjoys working with a wide range of clients in the advertising, corporate and editorial communities. His work has been selected many times in the Society of Illustrators West competition, and he has had several gallery showings. Doug lives in Leawood, Kansas, with his wife and two children.
Download or read book Kicking a Ball written by Allan Ahlberg and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who can't see a ball without wanting to kick it, head it, shoot it, or boot it! 'Not eating an ice-cream Or riding a bike No - kicking a ball Is what I like.' 'What I like best, yes, most of all in my whole life is . . . kicking a ball. A wonderful rhyming story, with narration by Allan Ahlberg himself, Kicking A Ball will not disappoint. First written as a poem, the little boy in the story has been brought to life perfectly by artist Sebastien Braun. Every parent will be able to immediately relate to the simple joy felt by a boy simply kicking a ball, and how there is nothing else quite like it. The incomparable Allan Ahlberg takes us on a journey from childhood to fatherhood full of humour, warmth, friendship . . . and football.
Download or read book The World through Soccer written by Tamir Bar-On and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts. In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others. Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
Download or read book Ready Set Go Sports of All Sorts En sus marcas listos fuera Deportes de todo tipo written by Celeste Cortright and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in bilingual Spanish! Come along on a lively, lyrical exploration of the world's most beloved sports. Rhyming text and energetic artwork featuring a diverse group of children introduce the basics of eight sports popular around the world: baseball, track, football/soccer, gymnastics, hockey, karate, basketball, and swimming. Includes educational endnotes and art by celebrated illustrator Christiane Engel, whose previous Barefoot credits include Baby's First Words, Dump Truck Disco, Knick Knack Paddy Whack, and Build-a-Story Cards: Space Quest.
Download or read book Joy in Mudville written by Robert Raczka and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been only twenty-four hours since Mighty Casey struck out, plunging fans of the Mudville team into gloom and despair. But a new game day dawned, and Casey once again proved his might with a homer in the eighth. The Mudville nine took a one-run lead, but in the bottom of the ninth, their hurler walked three straight. Bases loaded and the starting pitcher spent, the Mudville manager was not bullish about his bullpen. With the game on the line, he called for rookie Joy Armstrong to take the mound. Could she bring joy to Mudville again?and prove that a girl can play ball as well as any boy?
Download or read book Dino Football written by Lisa Wheeler and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veggie-saurs and the meat-eaters face off in the Mega-Bowl! Sacks and hand-offs. Touchdowns and interceptions. When dinos don shoulder pads, the action is sure to be epic. But as the clock ticks down, will the Scales make a goal-line stand or will the Blades break through for the winning TD?
Download or read book Music Everywhere written by Maya Ajmera and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they’re playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet, or singing. Music can help express one child’s feelings—or it can bring a whole community together.
