Pub Date: August 1, 2009
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2008039197
Lexile Code: 0450
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 05 to 09
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 9.10" L x 10.80" W ( 0.85 lbs) 32 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures | Sports and Recreation | Soccer | Stories in Verse see also Poetry
Series: Dino-Sports
Description: When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, it's a showdown of prehistoric proportions. Herbivores and carnivores play a hilarious and closely fought soccer match in front of a stadium full of cheering dinosaurs. Full color.
Brief description: Lisa Wheeler is the award-winning author of the Dino-Sports and Dino-Holidays books. When she isn't running around the country visiting schools, standing at podiums, and eating airport snacks, she resides in Michigan.
Review Quotes:
For Goal!:
"Stewart wraps a history of the game, bizarre incidents, record-setting achievements, and portraits of some of the game's greatest players around absorbing, high-tension accounts of 10 renowned goals."
--School Library Journal
For Dino-Soccer:
"Wheeler's fast and furious verse finds a perfect counterpart in Gott's richly colored scenes of jersey-clad creatures battling furiously for the ball--right down to the suspenseful final moments."
--School Library Journal