Showing posts with label the team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the team. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2008

This Day in History - April 6

Can I just say how great I would do playing Trivia Pursuit since I started receiving the This Day in History newsletter from The History Channel?

April 6, 1896: First Modern Olympic Games
"In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis."

Kane/Miller has published hundreds of titles in its 25 years, representing authors and illustrators from over 20 countries, and although we don't cover all of the sports mentioned above, there is a brief reference to weightlifting in Could a Tyrannosaurs Play Table Tennis.

Could a Wannanosaurus lift weights?
Illustration by Andrew Plant


We also cover soccer (The Team series) and baseball (Hit the Ball Duck), so whether you're an athlete, dinosaur aficionado or alphabet book collector, these titles are a wonderful choice for active readers!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Happy Birthday David!

Today, March 12th, David Bedford, author of The Team series, celebrates his birthday! David wasn't always a writer, but the two soccer teams he played for, Appleton Football Club and Sankey Rangers, never won any games, so he thought a career change might be in order. He lives in England.


Friday, February 29, 2008

Boys Will Be Boys

Continuing from yesterday's list, which featured Kane/Miller books with strong female protagonists, today's list of titles feature their male counterparts. Again, I only include human characters in this list - although I'd still like to mention Dougal (Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear), Guji Guji, Slow Loris, Lucky, Dave (Sally and Dave), Jack Russell and Benny.

Dan from Dan's Angel:
A Detective's Guide to the Language of Paintings



Taro Gomi's nameless son from I Lost My Dad!



Kali from Kali and the Rat Snake



Jonathan from The Key to My Heart



Mustafa from My Father's Shop



Paul from Paul Needs Specs



Paul and Sebastian



Unnamed hero from Samsara Dog



Sebastian from Sebastian's Roller Skates



Norman from The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley



Sosu from Sosu's Call



Tibili from Tibili:
The Little Boy Who Didn't Want to Go to School



Troy from Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry Book



Eddie from What Eddie Can Do



Unnamed narrator from What's Going On?



Wilfrid from Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge



Little Sala from Brush



Marc from Marc Just Couldn't Sleep



Kevin from:
Kevin Spends the Night
Kevin Takes a Trip
Kevin Goes to School
Kevin Goes to the Hospital



Harvey from The Team series:
The Soccer Machine
Top of the League
Soccer Camp
Superteam


Thomas from Will You Carry Me?