Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, and Throwing, and more by jack Prelutsky

With illustrations by Chris Raschka
Alfred A. Knopf
New York
C2007
Poetry

“I had to slide into the plate,/ It was my only chance./ Though if I hadn’t slid, then I/ Would not have lost my pants.” Cheerful, colourful, and full of humour, Jack Prelutsky’s sport-themed verse would make even the laziest couch potato want to don their sneakers and run about outside. Prelutsky’s (2006 Children’s Poet Laureate award winner) infectious verse pitches hard and fast while Chris Raschka’s (2006 Caldecott Medal winner) energetic watercolors swing and hit home on every single page. Great for sports fans and the sports challenged alike, ages 7 and up. *****