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.