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Good Sports

Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More

Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More

By Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Chris Raschka

By Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Chris Raschka

By Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Chris Raschka

By Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Chris Raschka

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Paperback $8.99

Feb 08, 2011 | ISBN 9780375865589 | 6-9 years

Ebook $6.99

Mar 02, 2011 | ISBN 9780375985812 | 7-9 years

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    About Good Sports

    Exhilarating, all-new, kid-friendly verses capture the range of emotions, from the thrill of winning to the agony of losing to the sheer joy of participating.  Jack Prelutsky, America’s first children’s poet laureate and a virtuoso at making poetry fun for the elementary school crowd, includes in this collection poems about the popular sports that kids play—team sports, individual sports, and even backyard frisbee tossing. The bouncy rhymes beg to be read aloud and lend themselves to easy recitation. Caldecott Medal Winner Chris Raschka’s stylized watercolors are a blaze of color and motion. An ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book of 2007, this exuberant picture book proves that poetry can be as much fun as playing games!

    About Good Sports

    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.

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    About Jack Prelutsky

    “I have always enjoyed playing with words, but I had no idea that I would be a writer. There was a time when I couldn’t stand poetry! . . . When I was a young man, I discovered poetry again… More about Jack Prelutsky

    About Chris Raschka

    I’m sometimes asked about my general approach to illustration, which has over the years come to be described as minimal. Hmm, I’m not sure minimal is such a complimentary term, but I’ll accept it. I wasn’t always minimal. In the… More about Chris Raschka

    About Jack Prelutsky

    “I have always enjoyed playing with words, but I had no idea that I would be a writer. There was a time when I couldn’t stand poetry! . . . When I was a young man, I discovered poetry again… More about Jack Prelutsky

    About Chris Raschka

    I’m sometimes asked about my general approach to illustration, which has over the years come to be described as minimal. Hmm, I’m not sure minimal is such a complimentary term, but I’ll accept it. I wasn’t always minimal. In the… More about Chris Raschka

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Dragonfly Books
    Feb 08, 2011 | 40 Pages | 11 x 8-1/2 | 6-9 years | ISBN 9780375865589

    Category: Children’s Books

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Dragonfly Books
    Mar 02, 2011 | 40 Pages | 7-9 years | ISBN 9780375985812

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    Praise

    Starred Review, Booklist, March 2007:
    "Prelutsky’s smoothly rhyming quatrains, ideal for recitation, cover team sports . . . as well as several individual ones,and celebrate disciplined efforts as exuberantly as noncompetitive play."

    Awards

    ALA Notable Children’s Book WINNER 2008

    Bank Street Child Study Children’s Book Award WINNER

    New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing WINNER 2007

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