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Goal: The Dream Begines
Soccer field excitement!
It's the last game of the season. With the score tied and the tension high, anything can happen. But the big win is made possible by one force alone--teamwork.
Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson have created a picture book that resonates with the energy of the biggest game of the season.
It's the last game of the season. With the score tied and the tension high, anything can happen. But the big win is made possible by one force alone--teamwork.
Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson have created a picture book that resonates with the energy of the biggest game of the season.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2001
10 people want to read
About the author
Robert Burleigh
71 books47 followersOver the past 35 years, I have published poems, reviews, essays, many filmstrips and videos, and more than 40 children's picture books.
Born and raised in Chicago, I graduated from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) and later received an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. I've published books for children since the early 1990s. My books - including numerous unpublished ones! - run a broad gamut, from stories geared for pre-schoolers to survival stories and biographies aimed at seven to eleven-year-olds. My work is wide-ranging because, basically, I'm a generalist by experience - and inclination!
In addition to writing, I paint regularly under the art name Burleigh Kronquist and have shown work in one-person and group shows in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere around the country.
-from robertburleigh.com
Born and raised in Chicago, I graduated from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) and later received an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. I've published books for children since the early 1990s. My books - including numerous unpublished ones! - run a broad gamut, from stories geared for pre-schoolers to survival stories and biographies aimed at seven to eleven-year-olds. My work is wide-ranging because, basically, I'm a generalist by experience - and inclination!
In addition to writing, I paint regularly under the art name Burleigh Kronquist and have shown work in one-person and group shows in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere around the country.
-from robertburleigh.com
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July 14, 2022
That was so very boring.
July 20, 2011
The beginning information in the front jacket of the book states that is the last soccer game of the season and the score is tied. With that being said, the tension is high. All the players must work together in order to score the big win.
With only 16 pages of text, Mr. Burleigh creates a setting where the team can score the big soccer win to be the champions. Each page has four lines of free verse poetry, using two or three word sentences/lines. The last line of every stanza is italicized with exclamation marks. The pastel graphics are the work of Stephen T. Johnson, who spent many hours attending soccer games and photographing players in action.
This was very easy reading and was quite the enjoyable little poetry book. With watching my daughters play soccer for many years,, I know how it feels to witness the team working together to win the game.
With only 16 pages of text, Mr. Burleigh creates a setting where the team can score the big soccer win to be the champions. Each page has four lines of free verse poetry, using two or three word sentences/lines. The last line of every stanza is italicized with exclamation marks. The pastel graphics are the work of Stephen T. Johnson, who spent many hours attending soccer games and photographing players in action.
This was very easy reading and was quite the enjoyable little poetry book. With watching my daughters play soccer for many years,, I know how it feels to witness the team working together to win the game.
June 27, 2008
A good sports book, this one about soccer. The story is told in short action-packed poetic phrases, and it moves at a quick pace, as a soccer game would. The pastel illustrations fit the story and allow for a look of fluidity.
October 18, 2012
Shows characters in action (talking, drawing, writing mentor text)
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