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Hopscotch Hill School
Good Sport Gwen
Gwen is the fastest runner, the highest kicker, and the top-scoring champion of the soccer team. But when her spelling bee team slides into a losing streak, Gwen learns that good sports are the most winning players of all. Back matter includes parent-child activities that encourage the development of good teamwork and sportsmanship skills.
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48 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
About the author
Valerie Tripp
275 books456 followersValerie Tripp is a children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl series.
She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York with three sisters and one brother. A member of the first co-educated class at Yale University, Tripp also has a M.Ed. from Harvard. Since 1985 she has lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her husband teaches history at Montgomery College.
Right out of college, Tripp started writing songs, stories, and nonfiction for The Superkids Reading Program, working with Pleasant Rowland, the founder of American Girl. For that series, Tripp wrote all the books about Felicity, Josefina, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen and many of the books about Samantha. She also wrote the "Best Friends" character stories to date, plays, mysteries, and short stories about all her characters.. Film dramatizations of the lives of Samantha, Felicity, Molly, and Kit have been based on her stories. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic and adapting Greek Myths for Starry Forest Publishing. A frequent speaker at schools and libraries, Tripp has also spoken at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, The New York Historical Society, and Williamsburg.
She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York with three sisters and one brother. A member of the first co-educated class at Yale University, Tripp also has a M.Ed. from Harvard. Since 1985 she has lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her husband teaches history at Montgomery College.
Right out of college, Tripp started writing songs, stories, and nonfiction for The Superkids Reading Program, working with Pleasant Rowland, the founder of American Girl. For that series, Tripp wrote all the books about Felicity, Josefina, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen and many of the books about Samantha. She also wrote the "Best Friends" character stories to date, plays, mysteries, and short stories about all her characters.. Film dramatizations of the lives of Samantha, Felicity, Molly, and Kit have been based on her stories. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic and adapting Greek Myths for Starry Forest Publishing. A frequent speaker at schools and libraries, Tripp has also spoken at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, The New York Historical Society, and Williamsburg.
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May 9, 2024
To tell the truth, I was originally very seriously considering not even bothering with posting an actual review for Valerie Tripp's early reader 2004 school story and chapter book Good Sport Gwen (and which is part of Tripp's Hopscotch Hill School series), since I am obviously not at all the intended audience for Good Sport Gwen.
But well, I indeed ended up changing my mind regarding not reviewing Good Sport Gwen, and mostly so because Good Sport Gwen is in my opinion content and thematics wise a pretty decently penned general story and equally with some very nice and important messages textually being provided by Valerie Tripp, and with me not being the above mentioned intended audience therefore actually and totally rather notwithstanding. For yes indeed and from where I am personally standing, young, recently independent readers (from about the age of six to eight, but certainly not really meant for children older than nine maximum) might well and even likely find Tripp’s presented story-line for Good Sport Gwen about main protagonist Gwen being a good sport regarding her soccer team and then learning how to also become a good sport and neither impatient nor nasty about her class's competitive in-class spelling bees (as well as Gwen finding and using a fun way to practice and to team train spelling) fun and engaging and not as bored and as finding the story annoyingly on the surface as has been my adult reaction reading Good Sport Gwen on Open Library (and to be honest, my inner child also has not found Good Sport Gwen all that fun and not really in any way engaging either, but then again, with regard to chapter books, my inner child is usually a ten to eleven year old as a minimum age and thus would of course find the early reader on the surface simplicity of what Valerie Tripp writes in Good Sport Gwen rather dragging and annoying).
And finally, with regard to how to rate Good Sport Gwen, I do have to say that I am a bit if not even more than a bit conflicted and feeling a trifle frustrated. For even though Tripp's story in my opinion works quite nicely for the right kind of audience and that I also think the author’s suggestions for parents are wonderful and useful, my personal reading reaction towards Good Sport Gwen is one of mostly boredom, and that therefore, a three star rating is all that I can and will consider for Good Sport Gwen (and that yes, considering how much my adult reading self and even my above mentioned ten to eleven year old inner child have found much of Good Sport Gwen too simplistic and as such pretty tedious, yes, I do think that my three star rating is actually and definitely pretty generous).
But well, I indeed ended up changing my mind regarding not reviewing Good Sport Gwen, and mostly so because Good Sport Gwen is in my opinion content and thematics wise a pretty decently penned general story and equally with some very nice and important messages textually being provided by Valerie Tripp, and with me not being the above mentioned intended audience therefore actually and totally rather notwithstanding. For yes indeed and from where I am personally standing, young, recently independent readers (from about the age of six to eight, but certainly not really meant for children older than nine maximum) might well and even likely find Tripp’s presented story-line for Good Sport Gwen about main protagonist Gwen being a good sport regarding her soccer team and then learning how to also become a good sport and neither impatient nor nasty about her class's competitive in-class spelling bees (as well as Gwen finding and using a fun way to practice and to team train spelling) fun and engaging and not as bored and as finding the story annoyingly on the surface as has been my adult reaction reading Good Sport Gwen on Open Library (and to be honest, my inner child also has not found Good Sport Gwen all that fun and not really in any way engaging either, but then again, with regard to chapter books, my inner child is usually a ten to eleven year old as a minimum age and thus would of course find the early reader on the surface simplicity of what Valerie Tripp writes in Good Sport Gwen rather dragging and annoying).
And finally, with regard to how to rate Good Sport Gwen, I do have to say that I am a bit if not even more than a bit conflicted and feeling a trifle frustrated. For even though Tripp's story in my opinion works quite nicely for the right kind of audience and that I also think the author’s suggestions for parents are wonderful and useful, my personal reading reaction towards Good Sport Gwen is one of mostly boredom, and that therefore, a three star rating is all that I can and will consider for Good Sport Gwen (and that yes, considering how much my adult reading self and even my above mentioned ten to eleven year old inner child have found much of Good Sport Gwen too simplistic and as such pretty tedious, yes, I do think that my three star rating is actually and definitely pretty generous).
May 21, 2021
A good early reader’s chapter book. Gwen thrives on winning but she must learn to be a good sport, and that includes being kind even in the face of losses. Relatable content for children in the target audience. It also includes a section for parents about how to help your child if they struggle with being a gracious winner/loser. Cute illustrations.
November 19, 2009
"I like that there's spelling in it, and I like spelling. And I like it because her name is Gwen and my name is Gwen. Most of the illustrations are smaller like in circles and less pictures are all the way through the book. I really like the way when they're spelling because you can actually see when they're spelling because it's not written like a regular word in the book. And I like it because it's called Good Sport Gwen.
August 9, 2008
A little cheesy, but my 5 1/2 year old can't read it enough!
August 3, 2009
it was babie-ish lol
April 1, 2012
It was good book because Gwen got angry at her friends because they lost the spelling bee. It was a chapter book that I read on my way home from Florida.
December 7, 2007
great book for young girls just ready to read chapter books.
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