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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Sports & outdoor recreation
A funny collection of football poems by Brian Bilston, the
unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter. Perfect for football fans of
all ages - from the young footie fanatic to a
been-to-every-game-grandma, and every 'I could've been a pro' in
between. Full of poems that will make you giggle about all things
football, including being left out of the World Cup squad, mum's
opinion on Messi vs Ronaldo, or those unmissable fixtures: I'd love
nothing more than to go outside and spend time with Mother Nature.
But what can I do? It's out of my hands: Nigeria are playing
Croatia 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems includes
witty chants, a haiku or two, and fun shape poems about the
beautiful game. Laugh together through the Euros or Premier League
games, and swap the half-time pundits for puns! 'Bilston is a
magician with words' - Guardian 'Someone who knows their way round
both a joke and a bittersweet narrative.' - The Times
The Official 2022 Everton FC Annual has everything that a Blues fan
would want! Get to know the players, test your Everton knowledge
with our fantastic quizzes and learn about some of the legends of
the club. The Annual is packed with posters and photographs of your
favourite Everton stars and is perfect for the young fan who wants
a 'Blue' Christmas!
ADVENTURE SPORTS An exhilarating dive into some of the world's most
extreme sports. Combining stunning photography with clear, simple
text, this series will keep you turning the pages. ADVENTURE SPORTS
From surfing big waves to racing down waterfalls, white water
sports are some of the most extreme and dangerous sports in the
world! Discover... * Different types of white water sport, from
kayaking to rafting. * Sporting legends, pushing limits and
breaking records. * The toughest river types and dangerous waters.
...and much more.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2022 A football fan's dream
come true - every complete UK PANINI sticker album 1978-1985
reproduced together for the very first time. 'This book delivers a
thousand memories'. Mark Lawrenson 'Swapsies', 'Got, Got, Need' and
'Shinies'... This landmark illustrated book is a fantastic feast of
nostalgia for any football fan of a certain age. PANINI albums were
a must-have if you were a football-mad kid growing up in the late
70s and 80s, when player stickers were bought, bartered and
collected in a treasured rite of passage. This book will bring back
all those 'I had that one', 'I'd forgotten about him' and 'look at
that haircut!' memories as well as providing in-depth details on
all the players and teams of the era. Licensed by PANINI, this is a
comprehensive collection of PANINI'S UK domestic football albums
from 1978 to 1985 inclusive. Covering all English First Division
and Scottish Premier teams, it features not only all the great
teams and players of the era, but the one-season wonders and the
also-rans as well. Inside the book: - Nearly 5,000 images of iconic
PANINI stickers, album covers and sticker packet designs. -
Hundreds of clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea,
Arsenal, Celtic, Rangers, Manchester City, Spurs, Newcastle United,
Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Aberdeen
and West Ham United. - Photographs and pen portraits of the great
players of the day, such as Bryan Robson, Glenn Hoddle, Kevin
Keegan, Ossie Ardiles, Ian Rush and John Barnes, plus World Cup
winners in the twilight of their careers and young stars in the
making, like Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle, Mark Hughes and Gary
Lineker.
Build your gymnastics skills with Sports Academy: Gymnastics
Looking to take up a new sport? Or just thinking about ways to keep
fit and healthy? This book is a great introduction to all the
important gymnastics skills you'll need. Full of tips and
illustrations showing key techniques, you'll discover everything -
from training to competing. Perfect for readers aged 9 and up. The
series Sports Academy covers rules, equipment and major
competitions through specially commissioned, step-by-step
illustrations that clearly shows skills and techniques needed for a
sport.
The inspirational true story of Walter Tull's life is vividly
presented as a scrapbook, drawing on photographs, documents and
records of his life. Born in Kent, in 1888, Walter Tull became not
just the first black British professional outfield football player
- for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town - but also the first
black officer in the British Army. His leadership and courage in
the trenches of the First World War won him a recommendation for a
Military Cross that was never awarded because of his skin colour.
Discover his life story, from his childhood in an orphanage,
through his footballing years, to his eventual tragic death, aged
29, on the Somme. The legacy of Walter Tull lives on.
A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that
teaches you about the world through football. The first book is
packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating
facts and will make you laugh loads. When do footballers poo? Can
you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You will find
the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects
such as history, geography, biology and maths. Illustrated
throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud
gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves
football. Your coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben
Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science
and sports writers. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging
writing make them the perfect team to teach you how to score with
your head.
8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to
score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she
moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no
friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with the wheelchair".
Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl
named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football,
everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
The definitive look at England's epic Euro 2020 journey! Centred
around England's phenomenal Euro 2020 journey, England's Heroes
takes a deeper look at how the national side's elite spine
(Pickford, Maguire, Sterling and Kane) took their country all the
way to the final at Wembley. Discover how the boys who grew up in
different parts of the country and were always playing against each
other at club level, all came together as one fantastic team under
the guidance of Gareth Southgate, and became the pride of the whole
nation! Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling
the life stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world
and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to superstar
professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style
these books are perfect for all the family to collect and share.
From New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Award recipient
Steve Sheinkin, Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across
America is the gripping true story of the fearless women pilots who
aimed for the skies--and beyond. Featuring illustrations by Bijou
Karman. Just nine years after American women finally got the right
to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929
Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the
incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated
generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even
learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping
altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age seventeen made
headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. These
awe-inspiring stories culminate in a suspenseful, nail-biting race
across the country that brings to life the glory and grit of the
dangerous and thrilling early days of flying. From Steve Sheinkin,
the master of nonfiction for young readers who expertly unraveled
the infamous story of whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the
impeachment of Richard Nixon, comes the untold story of fearless
women who dared to fly. This title has common core connections. A
2020 ALSC Notable Children's Book Also by Steve Sheinkin: Bomb: The
Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon The
Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism &
Treachery Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of
the Vietnam War The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the
Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle
Indian School Football Team Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything
Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King
George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't
Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents:
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
This book on Olympics beautifully traces the beginning of Olympics
in Greece, its transformation through the years and finally gives
ample information about the London Olympics in July 2012. A
complete source of knowledge about the world's greatest sports
event!
Ages 8-10. Beginning readers can practice their reading skills with
this 6-book set that introduces some of the sports played during
the Olympic Games. The Easy Olympic Sports Readers are fun-to-read
for primary grade children and are highly motivational. These
16-page books are also filled with exciting full color photographs.
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Matt & Tom Oldfield, Ultimate Football Heroes
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From the Playground to the Pitch, meet Lewandowski - Ultimate Football Hero
Robert Lewandowski is one of the best strikers in the world. Loved for his smart gameplay and relentless goalscoring, Lewandowski gathered a great following at Lech Poznan and Borussia Dortmund. Then, his career reached new heights when he moved to Bayern Munich in 2014, leading to the team winning the Bundesliga six years in a row and becoming Champions League winners in 2020. Follow his incredible journey from a young boy aspiring to emulate his sporting parents, to the man who conquered the pitches of Munich and Europe!
Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling the life stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to superstar professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style these books are perfect for all the family to collect and share.
Take a tour of America's great outdoors and discover the beauty and
diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks. Packed
with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna unique to
each of the 21 parks portrayed, this lushly illustrated
coast-to-coast journey documents in large format the nation's most
magnificent and sacred places - and shows why they should be
preserved for future generations to enjoy. Explore Florida's
river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the
Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the
soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings
you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Divided by region
(East, Central, Rocky Mountains, West, Tropics and Alaska), a
pictographic map at the start of each section shows the locations
of the parks to be covered. Each park is introduced by a stunning,
poster-worthy illustration of one of its scenes and a summary of
its makeup, followed by individual illustrations of the animals and
plants that make their homes there. Captions provide captivating
information about the wildlife. Did you know that Everglades
National Park is home to marsh rabbits who paddle through its
swamps searching for herbs, flowers and other plants to nibble on?
Or that the pronghorn antelope of Badlands National Park are the
continent's fastest land animals, sprinting up to 60 miles per hour
to escape predators like bobcats and coyotes? A 'Can you spot
this... ?' page at the back challenges you to find a pictured
critter or plant for every letter of the alphabet. The parks
include: Acadia, Badlands, Big Bend, Biscayne, Bryce Canyon,
Channel Islands, Death Valley, Denali, Everglades, Glacier, Glacier
Bay, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Hawaii volcanoes, Isle
Royale, Mesa Verde, Olympic, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Virgin
Islands, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. A book to be treasured by
children and adults alike, National Parks of the USA serves to
inspire the adventuring naturalist in all of us. Brimming with
facts, activities and beautiful illustrations, the National Parks
of the USA series of books immerses young people in the wonders of
America's outdoors. Learn about the wonderful wildlife, stunning
scenery and rare plants that inhabit these precious outdoor spaces.
Celebrate these beautiful and rare locations, and be awed by the
diversity and grandeur of the national parks' living landscapes.
Also in the series: National Parks of the USA: Activity Book and
National Parks of the USA Postcards.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RONALDO AND NEYMAR. Prolific,
cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the
most revered footballers in history. But did you know that his
transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin? Or that
an x-ray of his hand was to thank for identifying his growth
hormone deficiency? And do you know why he refused to collect his
first ever Champions League winner's medal? Find out all this and
more in Luca Caioli's classic portrait of a footballing icon,
featuring exclusive interviews with those who know him best and
even Messi himself.
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