Enjoy an activity packed advent calendar with this fantastic football themed advent calendar featuring 24 individually wrapped books

Goading the goalkeeper as he runs up for a goal kick. Your grandad telling you not to use the words from the songs in front of your grandma. Capturing the green of the pitch through the bodies. There's something magical about your first football match. Use this book to share your own nostalgic memories with your little one.

This title introduces soccer fans to the history of one of the top MLS clubs, the Portland Timbers. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

This outstanding family-oriented introduction to soccer untangles the mystery, answers your questions and explains the game in an informative, yet thoroughly readable style. Athletes and fans of any age wanting to get involved with youth soccer will find this book especially helpful. It explains refereeing and coaching options for teenagers and discusses the opportunities for parental involvement in coaching, officiating and other volunteer jobs.

Football fans love nothing more than to read about their favourite teams. Although this book is aimed at young teenagers they will delight all ages with their mixture of funny and enlightening stories and will give hours of pleasure discovering quirky facts about your favourite team. Each title is also augmented with a selection of sketches by the young sketch artist Becky Welton that depict some of the stories within.