Change-Up: Baseball Poems

by Gene Fehler

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...

• 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

play ball and learn poetry

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!