Goodnight Soccer
Goodnight Soccer
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Annotation: The perfect bedtime book for young soccer fans. From the opening kickoff to the final goal, a young girl says goodnight ... more
Genre: [Sports fiction]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #512660
Format: Board Book
Special Formats: Board Book Board Book
Publisher: Capstone
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 01/01/19
Illustrator: Forshay, Christina,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-684-36231-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-684-36231-8
Dewey: E
Dimensions: 16 x 18 cm.
Language: English
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ALA Booklist (Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 2023)

One evening, a girl, her brother, and their parents attend a soccer game in a sold-out stadium. Their team wins the toss. First, one team scores; then the other. Tension builds as the clock ticks away. A penalty kick. A last-second score: "Gooooaaallll!!" While other fans stream out, the family stays to watch the coaches and players, and one of them gives the girl a game ball. She takes it home, shows her dad the team in a group photo above her bed, and falls asleep with her arm curved around the ball. The text, written in rhymed couplets, reads aloud smoothly, and the digital artwork captures sports action and bedtimes with equal facility. In 2018, it's not surprising that the picture-book illustrations feature an apparently Hispanic family and include racially diverse crowds and athletes. But while in Dahl and Forshay's Goodnight Baseball (2013), Goodnight Football (2014), and Goodnight Hockey (2015) the athletes are men, the current book shows two women's teams competing in a packed stadium. Nicely played.

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ALA Booklist (Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 2023)
Word Count: 223
Reading Level: 1.6
Interest Level: P-2
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 1.6 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 193923 / grade: Lower Grades
Lexile: 450L
Guided Reading Level: H
Fountas & Pinnell: H

The perfect bedtime book for young soccer fans. From the opening kickoff to the final goal, a young girl says goodnight to her most beloved sport: soccer. With delightful, rhyming text and energetic art, acclaimed author Michael Dahl (Goodnight Baseball, Goodnight Football, Goodnight Hockey), along with illustrator Christina E. Forshay, captures the thrill and excitement of the world's most popular sport. This Sports Illustrated Kids picture book will have soccer fans young and old cheering for bedtime!


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