Super Sports Stories for Kids

Super Sports Stories for Kids

Super Sports Stories for Kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Super Sports Stories for Kids

Patrick Loughlin

Random House, 2015

196pp., pbk., RRP $A14.99

9780857989666

 

Imagine having to make the choice between swimming naked because your swimmers have come off or stopping to save your modesty but lose your chance to get to the national championships.  Or riding the best wave of your life because your life depends on it.  Or having the spotlight on you as you, the master of the miss-hit, have to play the best handball player of all time in the duel for court rights for a week…

These are all scenarios from this book of twelve exciting short stories focusing on a range of sports that teach the characters about themselves as well as their sports.  Each story is action-packed with high stakes, over and done with in a few pages, but leaving the reader feeling satisfied that they have just read a quality story.  With sport such a focus of life during the Australian summer, this is a great new release by the author of both the Billy Slater and Glenn Maxwell series that will appeal to both boys and girls. The final story about an everlasting football match in heaven is unique, showing the power of Loughlin’s imagination to make this collection different, to move it away from other more mainstream short story collections and keep even the non-sporty reading. He really has scored a goal with this one.

 

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