Let'S Play!: Poems About Sports and Games from Around the World - Softcover

Debjani Chatterjee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847805841 ISBN 13: 9781847805843

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, 2014

Synopsis

The sports featured are: cricket, football, American football, baseball, basketball, running, relay race, tobogganing, skating, swimming, diving, netball, pole vault, shotput, kung fu, judo, boxing, tennis, table tennis,  kite flying, hockey, surfing, riding, horse racing. The games include: skipping, swinging, circle game, computer game, scrabble, chess, snakes and ladders, clapping game. The illustrations portray games and sports being played all over the world, by children and adults of many different cultures.

About this title

About the Author:

DEBJANI CHATTERJEE has written and edited well over 50 books, including Animal Antics, Masala and The Elephant-headed God & Other Hindu Tales - selected for Children's Books of the Year. Sheffield Hallam University awarded her an honorary doctorate and in 2008 she received an MBE for services to Literature. She lives in Sheffield. BRIAN D'ARCY is an Anglo-Irish poet who has contributed to many anthologies of children's poetry and has had two collections published. He retired from lecturing at Sheffield Hallam University, after having previously lectured in Huddersfield, Blackburn and Lancaster. He won an Edward Lear Centenary Limerick Competition and lives in Sheffield with his wife Debjani Chatterjee. Together, they edited Let's Celebrate!: Festival Poems from around the World. He lives in Sheffield SHIRIN ADL was born in the UK but was brought up in Iran. She studied Illustration at Loughborough University, going ton to win the Hallmark M&S Talented Desginer Award. She was Booktrust's official illustrator for Children's Book Week in 2010. Her books for Frances Lincoln include Pea Boy: Stories from Iran with Elizabeth Laird, Ramadan Moon with Na'ima B Robert, and Let's Celebrate: Festival Poems from Around the World with Debjani Chatterjee. Shirin lives in Oxford.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 3–6—This picture book compendium of sports and game poetry doesn't attempt to comprehensively detail every sport from around the world. Rather, as explained in the author's note, it simply highlights a variety of activities and sports, from video and board games to basketball, hockey, and baseball. Readers will enjoy these varied poems (free verse, concrete, haiku, and more) organized by theme. Educators can use this to their advantage by guiding readers to talk about how and why the poems are grouped. For example, soccer is placed on a spread with American football, and "Snakes and Ladders" is immediately followed by "Computer Game." The collagelike illustrations feature male and female characters as well as a diverse representation of the cultures from all over the globe. The book closes with a glossary that briefly explains each of the sports and games. This solid addition to poetry collections has potential for sparking discussion.—Andy Plemmons, David C. Barrow Elementary, Athens, GA

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847805841
• ISBN 13: 9781847805843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56