DK Readers 1:First Day at Gymnastics Paper
Make Me the Best at Track and Field (Make Me the Best Athlete)
by Ken Stone
Running (21st Century Skills Library: Real World Math) (Real World Math: Sports)
by Katie Marsico and Cecilia Minden
2 Year Monthly Planner 2020-2021 (2020 - 2021 Two Year Monthly Calendar Planner 8.5 X 11, #8)
by Nine Journal
Individual Sports at the Paralympics (Paralympic Sports)
by Matt Bowers
Meet Shannon Miller who tells you how she became a champion. Then with the help of dynamic photographs and tips from the top young gymnasts reveal the secrets of their skills and agilities. Explore with them and discover gymnastics from how to get started to taking part in competitions.
Surviving the Marathon Des Sables (You Choose: Surviving Extreme Sports)
by Matt Doeden
The Marathon des Sables is considered the most grueling foot race on the planet, and you're about to run it. Over six days and some 150 miles in the Sahara Desert, you will make decisions that will test your mettle. These decisions could bring you glory, bring you shame, or even send you to an early grave. Only YOU CHOOSE how this adventure story ends.
OLYMPIAN, WORLD CHAMPION RUNNER AND IRISH SPORTING LEGEND ‘Sonia walked to the start line with the other athletes, her tummy full of butterflies. She could feel the eyes of the crowd upon them. Sixty-five thousand people, all here to watch their race. She had dreamt about this moment for so long, and now it was here.’ As a little girl, playing with her friends in Cobh, Co. Cork, Sonia O’Sullivan was known as the fastest runner. When she joined a running club and started to win races, she began...
Summer Olympic Sports: Track and Field (Summer Olympic Sports)
by M K Osborne
Age range 5 to 9 Published to coincide with 2020 Summer Olympic Games, this dynamic book puts a spotlight on its featured track and field competitions, including running, jumping and throwing events. Young readers will be delighted by the stories about Olympic heroes and will marvel at the full-colour action photography. This volume also includes a table of contents, a Q&A feature, glossary, recommended books and websites and an index. 'Bold colours and exciting scenes will attract beginning...
Jesse Owens (Sports immortals)
by William R. Sanford and Carl R. Green
A biography of the noted black track star, whose record-breaking performances in college and in the 1936 Berlin Olympics assured him a place in sports history.
Marion Jones (Sports Stars (Children's Press Paper))
by Mark Alan Stewart
This series is for children who are just taking up a sport and want to know more about it. Each book explores the basics and explains the skills needed for participation, providing exercises where appropriate, and also offers an insight into top-level competitition. Safety warnings are given high priority throughout the series. This book relates gymnastics to games that children already play in the playground and on climbing frames, and goes on to deal with the various pieces of gymnastic appara...
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Great Achievers: Lives of the Physically Challenged)
by Geri Harrington
Comprehensive photographic guides to playing and enjoying the world's top sports. Whether you are taking part or just watching, badminton is an exciting and dramatic sport. Discover all you need to know about it, from training to playing, while profiles and stats tell you more about the world's greatest players.
In 1967, a thirteen-year-old girl named Maureen Wilton set the women's world marathon record, running 26.2 miles in 3:15:23. Nicknamed “Little Mo” by her track teammates, Wilton was already a headline-making athlete. But her accomplishment was greeted with controversy and misogynistic accusations of cheating. Wilton receded into the background, left the sport, and kept her achievement secret. This is the story of what happened, and how Maureen found her way back to the sport decades later as the...
The world of Yoga for small and bigger children. An avid Yoga practitioner for over a decade, Angelika Taschen has teamed with internationally acclaimed illustrator Olaf Hajek to create a beautiful new Yoga primer for children. More than just a practical workbook, Hajek's charming illustrations seek to cultivate an early interest in the historical and cultural background and peaceful philosophical ideas of this ancient discipline. Basic Yoga poses are depicted in fantastical settings that will d...
Will you get a buzz from running? Will you get a buzz from jumping? How will you get the Buzz? The Buzz! is a low level phonics reading book. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this 243-word recount features a fully decodable text, suitable for ages 9 - 13. The Buzz! covers the second set of basic letters and sounds that students meet in Phase 3 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Government's synthetic phonics reading programme. The Buzz! is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured readin...
EDGE: Dream to Win: Jessica Ennis-Hill (EDGE: Dream to Win)
by Roy Apps
After injury prevented her from competing in the 2008 Olympic Games, Jessica Ennis fought back to become the 2012 Olympic gold medal winner in the heptathlon. Read her story from her childhood years right up to when she crossed the finish line in her final event in London, 2012. It takes blood, sweat and tears to get to the top of any sport, and these short, inspirational biographies show just how tough it can be. Focusing on top athletes and sport personalities, each dramatic story brings to...