Balls!

What book provides information on bingo balls, pangolins, ball pythons, soccer balls, footballs and tennis balls just to name a few? Balls!
It is a compendium of all things to do with balls! What a great find for a PE teacher!
This is a wonderful collection of facts and asides all about balls. There are photos, historical and modern, fun facts, cartoons, famous faces, records and much more. The book is divided into 11 sections including 8 sports and ball basics and more odd balls and finally a for further reading section. The information is presented in a quirky fun kid-friendly way so that it is not a dry collection of facts.

The reader can learn the history of each ball and how it is constructed and why it is made the way it is--for example a basketball has 31, 029 pebbles on its surface! there is something in here for everyone. It can be read from cover to cover or a reader can select their favorite sport.
Bowling, baseball, and billiard balls are conspicuously absent. his is explained briefly on p.69 where Rosen assures us that another volume is coming soon!

Grades 4-7
PE Teachers K-8