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"Children will feel like they're part of the team as they learn the fundamental rules and equipment needed to play the four most popular team sports in this Game Day series of nonfiction picture books for classroom and library use. Score! You Can Play Soccer tells why soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Other titles include Jump Ball! You Can Play Basketball, Nice Hit! You Can Play Baseball, and Touchdown! You Can Play Football. Each book includes full-color illustrations, diagrams of playing spaces, factoids, glossary, index, and additional reading suggestions.-- ""The Midwest Book Review- Bookwatch"" In a picture-book format with informative content, a soccer coach explains the game to her uninitiated team. Novices will appreciate the colorful cartoons, many of which fill the spread, such as the one where a big foot ""whacks"" the ball past the goalie into the net. Illustrations portray both boys and girls on the field; however, not all players are pictured wearing traditional-looking cleats, even though the necessity of using shoes that do not slip on the grass is clearly pointed out. Written before Freddy Adu, 14, joined the DC United team, ""Fun Facts"" points out notable players Mia Hamm and Pele. The diagram of the playing field is simple and unadorned. Using controlled Web-site access, students can either type in the keyword ""soccer"" or use a special code number to have Fact Hound ""fetch"" three sites relating to the game. (When checked, one of them did not work.) A welcome addition for beginners.-- ""School Library Journal"""

Children will feel like they're part of the team as they learn the fundamental rules and equipment needed to play the four most popular team sports in this Game Day series of nonfiction picture books for classroom and library use. Score! You Can Play Soccer tells why soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Other titles include Jump Ball! You Can Play Basketball, Nice Hit! You Can Play Baseball, and Touchdown! You Can Play Football. Each book includes full-color illustrations, diagrams of playing spaces, factoids, glossary, index, and additional reading suggestions.-- The Midwest Book Review- Bookwatch In a picture-book format with informative content, a soccer coach explains the game to her uninitiated team. Novices will appreciate the colorful cartoons, many of which fill the spread, such as the one where a big foot whacks the ball past the goalie into the net. Illustrations portray both boys and girls on the field; however, not all players are pictured wearing traditional-looking cleats, even though the necessity of using shoes that do not slip on the grass is clearly pointed out. Written before Freddy Adu, 14, joined the DC United team, Fun Facts points out notable players Mia Hamm and Pele. The diagram of the playing field is simple and unadorned. Using controlled Web-site access, students can either type in the keyword soccer or use a special code number to have Fact Hound fetch three sites relating to the game. (When checked, one of them did not work.) A welcome addition for beginners.-- School Library Journal

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New York-based Nick Fauchald is the author of numerous children books. He helped create the magazine Every Day with Rachael Ray and has been an editor at Food & Wine and Wine Spectator magazines. Nick attended the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan and has worked with some of the world's best chefs. However, he still thinks kids are the most fun to cook with.

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