Change-Up: Baseball Poems
Baseball season! For a kid who loves the sport, everything about it is important. Pitching, batting, sliding, winning, losing, Grandpa's knuckleballs, superstitious teammates, cheering spectators--even the infield dust . . . each has a place in the player's life. And all are captured here in Fehler's perceptive, exuberant poetry and Donald Wu's lively illustrations. Readers who play baseball will recognize a kindred spirit in the young narrator whose voice is heard in this book and will share his pleasure in every aspect of the game. Sports fans may even discover that they're poetry fans, too.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0618719628
ISBN13:9780618719624
Release Date:February 2009
Publisher:Clarion Books
Length:48 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.5" x 10.0"
Age Range:6 to 9 years
Grade Range:Grades 1 to 4
Customer Reviews
1 rating
play ball and learn poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is a collection book of poems about baseball but it reads like a story book. It starts out in winter when the boy in the story is longing for spring and takes us full circle into the next winter when the child is ready to begin playing baseball again. The poems include stories about wins, loses, baseball superstitions, teamwork, cheering and much more. You can tell that the author really loves the sport and understands what it's like to be a young person that loves to play ball. This book can be used in the classroom on many levels. I see it working well for lessons on poetry in grade 3-5. What I really like was that the author included girls in the poems. The mom loves watching the games and there is even a poem about Gabby one of the teams star pitchers!
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