Tiny Timmy: Playing Up

Tiny Timmy #11

by Tim Cahill, Heath McKenzie (Illustrator)

Timmy, Kyah and Shae's teams are all in the hunt for the finals, but look out... Kyah's team is suddenly short of players! Someones going to have to step up, and Timmy's super keen! But these kids are older and bigger, and Timmy will have twice as many games to play, and twice as much training to do! Will Timmy be able to play up?

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2020

About the author

Tim Cahill was born in Sydney, New South Wales to an English father of Irish descent and a Samoan mother, and was encouraged to play football as a child. He grew up moving between homes around Sydney’s south, west and inner west. He has an older sister Opa, older brother Sean and younger brother Chris. As a youngster, Cahill played football for Balmain Police Boys Club and Marrickville Football Club.

Reviews

[Jill Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Tiny Timmy series is an insight to how families drive from one sporting event to another to support their kids.

Tiny Timmy was playing for the Lions and they were needing wins to get into the finals. He was in attack an assisting and getting goals.

His big brother Kyah played after his games and his team lost players due to injury. They needed a fill in who could kick goals. Timmy was asked to play but his parents were worried. This team was much bigger than the Lions age group.

The first game Timmy played he assisted them getting a goal. At the end of the game he was exhausted. He thought it might be too much for his body when he ached all over the whole week and lacked energy to perform the next weekend.

Kyah helped Timmy with energy food, massaging and doing his chores to help him recover. He even helped Timmy with his homework.

The next game Timmy had enough energy and played well. They won and secured a spot in the finals.

I like these books because l like soccer. So do many boys and girls. It shows how a soccer star worked hard to get to the top. He loved playing extra games as a kid and gained experience in doing it.

If l see more of these books l’ll pick them up to pass onto a friends children.

[Sally Griggs]

I thought that the book was very interesting because their was always something going to happen and it made me just want to keep reading. Tiny Timmy faced challenging situations like when his brother's team wanted him to play for them because they were a man down for the team and tim's brother thought it would be a good opportunity for him to have. Tim also had to play for his own team the lions because the finals were coming up. Tiny Timmy brother team had the finals coming up as well so they really needed him.