Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms (Picture Puffin Books)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140566783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Customer said Extraordinary effort for a first time author.. Pain, passion, poetry in motion Rimshots has it all. In stories and poems, Smith shows the range of emotions tied to the hearts of those who love the game of basketball. The in-your-face color typestyles are balanced by the sensitive sepia toned photos of the players. "Don't force anything, let the game come to you". Basketball fans will want this book to come to them. Extraordinary effort for a first time author. Simple and honest.. basketball players can be authors I just finished charles r.smith jr's book rimshots. It was a great book. it was about the authors life of basketball, and he makes it into poems that deal with different basketball situations. The reason this book was so great is because it was about basketball but in poem form. No other book that I have ever read has used basketball as content for a poem.. Must read for all hoop fans! Rimshots is creative and witty with amazing photos. Any basketball fan will love this book!
The power, strength, and determination of the game of basketball are captured in striking photographs and sizzling stories, poems, and personal reflections. From frustration to humor, joy, and triumph, this streetwise look at a favorite American pastime conveys all the passion and excitement of the sport.
In '"Please Put Me In, Coach!!"' a boy's pleading voice promises "not to hog," and "I'll listen to you now" if only he can go back in the game. "School's in Session" and "The Sweetest Roll" are gracefully shaped poems that will inspire students to create their own selections. Like the game, the poems are quick, energetic, and highly rhythmic, and the prose pieces, personal and passionate. Each narrator remembers how it was "when I was your age," from no high-tech shoes, to no new shoes, to no shoes at all. The concluding piece, "Everything I Need to Know in Life, I Learned from Basketball," will surely find its way onto locker-room and gymnasium walls. All of the superb dual-toned photographs depict young men. In the humorous narrative "No Sole," different voices lecture a player complaining about how much his new shoes hurt. The pieces are both varied and accessible. From School Library Journal Grade 5 Up?Through unusual fonts and splashes of color, the