| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
37 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
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age Children |
| Summary |
A collection of eighteen poems about various sports including baseball, skiing, karate, and tennis. The vitality of the language and the verve of Scott Medlock's illustrations truly echo the energy and joy of participating in athletics in this unique collection of sports poems by a first-string team of beloved poets, including Jane Yolen, Walt Whitman, and Gary Soto. A handsome addition to the expanding trove of sports anthologies. |
| Contents |
Karate kid / Jane Yolen -- Spearthrower / Lillian Morrison -- Ode to weight lifting / Gary Soto -- Runner / Walt Whitman -- From I am the running girl / Arnold Adoff -- Speed! / Monica Kulling -- Thoughts after a forty mile bike ride / Roy Wesson -- Swimmer / Constance Levy -- Foul shot / Edwin A. Hoey -- Ties / Dabney Stuart -- Ice skating / Sandra Liatsos -- Chair lift / Maxine W. Kumin -- Skiing / Bobbi Katz -- Tomorrow! / Milton Bracker -- Boyhood baseball / Roger Granet -- Soccer / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Love fifteen / Lillian Morrison -- Final score / Lee Bennett Hopkins. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Juvenile poetry.
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Sports. |
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Children's poetry, American.
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Children's poetry, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hopkins, Lee Bennett.
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Medlock, Scott, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0152002707 |
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9780152002701 |
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