An appealing anthology includes twenty short easy-to-read poems about baseball, track, swimming, soccer, basketball, football, ice skating and hockey. Poets represented in the collection include Nikki Grimes, J. Patrick Lewis, Myra Cohn Livingston, and Michael Strickland, and most of the poems appear to have been written especially for especially for this volume. The same three boys and two girls appear as teammates and individual athletes in all of the poems, and the emphasis here is on action and the joy of the game, rather than winning or losing. (Ages 5-7)

Fly balls, hoop dreams, the finish line. Come celebrate the world of sports with Lee Bennett Hopkin's newest anthology of verse for beginning readers. Acclaimed poets Nikki Grimes, Myra Cohn Livingston, and J. Patrick Lewis are just a few members of the dream team gathered in this winning collection. With exuberant illustrations by Brian Floca, this Level 3 I Can Read Book is poetry in motion!