Hoop Kings

by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Book Overview

Cheer on twelve top basketball pros with a dynamic collection of verse by Charles R. Smith Jr., set against vibrant photos of the players in action. Tim Duncan cashes in double-digit points by banking it off the backboard. Kevin Garnett makes his new-and-improved moves in 3-D. As for the "Super Human Atomic Quake" Shaquille O Neal, just open the foldout and see what it might take to fill his gargantuan shoes (shown actual size). With pumping, energetic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763614238
• ISBN13: 9780763614232
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Collection - only wish it was longer!

These poems are wonderful - each takes a different approach to characterizing the talent and personalities of these basketball superstars. I have found the poems to appeal to my male students, which is significant and valuable to me, as they are often the students I encounter the greatest resistance from in their first contact with poetry as a form. My only compliant? I just wish the author had included more poems! The ones he wrote are wonderful, but there are only about a dozen. It is quite a slim volume!