Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More

by Jack Prelutsky

Other authorsChris Raschka (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2011

Status

Available

Local notes

811 Pre

Barcode

6593

Collection

Publication

Dragonfly Books (2011), 40 pages

Description

An illustrated collection of poems for children about various sports activities.

Awards

Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Poetry — 2009)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

40 p.; 8.44 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member SJeanneM
This book was billed to me as having a sports theme that would appeal to children with a more rough and tumble attitude. I can't say that this is up to par with the rest of his poetry books for kids that I have read and I have to say that my kids love poetry as long as it rhymes no matter what and
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they still weren't very engaged by this book.
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LibraryThing member my624persona
What do you get when you mix poems from children's poet laureate Jack Prelutsky with beautiful swirls of ink and watercolor from Caldecott-winning artist Christ Raschka? Good Sports! Prelutsky's poems show us the ups and downs of being a kid and playing sports, and kids learn that "fun" and "games"
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are do not always travel hand in hand! Rasckha's beautiful illustrations give kids an opportunity to stretch their mind's eyes to find familiar forms in foreign figures. Great for kids who love sports, or who get discouraged from playing them and feeling lousy. 2nd grade reading level and up, or wonderful to read aloud to a class or storytime, or at home with one or many kids. Prelutsky's rhythms drive the verses quick and spry, and kids will have a great time reciting them aloud with an older reader.
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LibraryThing member kelasater
This book is about sports and playing them whether you win or lose or whether you are athletic or not. The pictures are cute and colorful and the rhyming keeps it interesting. Good book for boys or girls and includes many different sports.
LibraryThing member mstuhan
Good classroom uses include poetry unit(s) and character education, as well as read-aloud fun.
LibraryThing member msalissa
This book is great for teaching students to be good sports. It also helps them to realize that not everyone can be good at everything because people have their own talents. It introduces different kinds of sports for children to learn more about. Have the students pick out their favorite sport from
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the story after you read it.
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LibraryThing member elspethstanley
Water color and ink create an abstract effect that make the illustrations super engaging. The poems show perspectives of different aspects of different sports from playhing frisbee ("though we aren't good at all") to slam dunking basketballs. This collection of poems are a great way to encourage
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kids to try new sports, regardless of ability.
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LibraryThing member ltipton
This book of children's poetry is about running, jumping, throwing and more. Through poetry the author teaches about winning, losing, playing well and not playing well with others. This book and teaches the importance of being a good sport.

This is a great book to use when dealing with the trials
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and tribulations of sports and playing sports with friends and I have used this book several times with my boys in dealing with similar situations.

One extension idea is to make a chart with the students of different sports and have the students share what sports they play and chart it. Another extension idea is to have the students discuss each sport, how many team members there are for that sport and then have the students share ways to be a good sport to their teammates.
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LibraryThing member burke73
This book of children's poetry is about running, jumping, throwing and more. Through poetry, the author teaches about winning, losing, playing well and not playing well with others. This book also teaches the importance of being a good sport. Water color and ink create an abstract effect that make
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the illustrations super engaging. The poems show perspectives of different aspects of different sports from playing frisbee to slam dunking basketballs. This collection of poems are a great way to encourage kids to try new sports, regardless of ability. The rhyming keeps the poems catchy and shoe students, especially boys, that you can write a poem about anything!
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LibraryThing member loadedbs
The book Good Sports uses rhymes in connection with sport activities. The poetry also gives examples of the difference between being a good sport and a sore loser.

I thought this book was a lot of fun for both the poems and the unique style of illustrations. Kids will be drawn into this book because
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they all run or jump and know what it is like to win and lose. This book can be especially helpful to those kids who feel they are not good enough to be in sports.

A great way to introduce teamwork and the importance for all members of a team no matter how important each one feels they are.
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LibraryThing member nellysanchez
Good Sport is a sport poem book, if you are trying to teach your child the different sport and games this book will be perfect for you. Also they will learn what sport will like better for example jumping, running, volleyball, freebee they will engage with all this kind of sports. Beside that
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children can learn about poetry or write poem focusing or being inspired by sport games.
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LibraryThing member AshleyWheeler
This book of poems is all about different kinds of sports and activities including baseball, soccer, gymnastics, basketball, swimming, football, Frisbee, ice skating, swimming, and roller blading. The text was mediocre and the illustrations were very abstract.
LibraryThing member Marinam77
This is a poetry book that rhymes about running, jumping, throwing, and more. This book would be appealing to kids that enjoy any type of sport activities. The poems are short but praising all-year-round games. The illustrations are delightful and happy, displaying positive emotions of kids playing
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sports.
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LibraryThing member kmetca1
In my opinion, this is a good book. The first reason that I liked this book was because I thought it would be very relatable for readers. The book is comprised of different poems about various sports. I think that the book is relatable because readers can find a poem about a sport they enjoy and
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immediately they have a connection to the book. If readers do not have connection to a specific sport then maybe they can read the book and gain a connection to a sport. Readers could also use this book to gain information about sports, or even be exposed to a new sport. There is different terminology used in the book that readers can learn about and gain insight about a sport. For example, some of the terms used are “goalkeeper, vault, flounder, touchdown, and dunk.” Readers are able to use this book of poems to gain knowledge about familiar and unfamiliar sports. Another thing I liked about the book was that I found the language to be quite expressive, “I chop chop chop without a stop, I move with great agility.” Readers are able to see the expression of karate through the language that is used. Using words like chop helps the reader to be put in the mindset of karate, because one of the aspects of karate is to chop objects, among other activities. Another thing that I liked about the book were the illustrations that were used. The illustrations were watercolor paintings, and really quite beautiful. They were able to display the actions of the sports in ways that the text could not. Another thing that was interesting about the illustrations is that they would continue across the pages of the book. For example, the trail that the roller-skaters used went across the page, and this made the book very interesting. Readers were able to be engaged and excited by the illustrations. Having such interesting pictures for young readers to look at would really help them engage and interact with the text. A last thing that I liked about the book was the characters were relatable and believable. There were times when the characters were extremely excited about their sports, and I’m sure this is something most athletes can relate to. But, there were also times when their sports upset them, “baseball is fun, but it gives me the blues, to score ninety-four, and still manage to lose.” I’m sure athletes can relate to playing a hard game and not having the scoreboard represent the outcome they wanted. Having the characters be relatable helps readers to see themselves in the story, and be further engaged in the story. Also, having characters feel these kinds of emotions also helps the characters to be believable. I think the overall message of the story is to find an activity and be passionate about it. In each poem the characters love what they are doing. Even though they will not win every game they still have a passion to continue playing the sport.
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LibraryThing member sarahetuemmler
genre: realistic fiction
This book is all about sports. It plays with rhyming throughout the book and it has a fun way of describing many different sports in story form. It tells the story of each different sport by also creating a vivid picture of what that sport would look like. It has interesting
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illustrations to go with the quirky, rhyming style of the book.
Age group: 3-5th grade
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Pages

40

Rating

½ (27 ratings; 3.9)
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