Sports! Sports! Sports: A Poetry Collection

by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor), Brian Floca (Illustrator)

A dynamic collection of poems celebrates the joy and anguish of baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, skating, swimming, and running races. By the editor of Poems for All Seasons.

Genres: Poetry, Sports, Picture Books, Nonfiction

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Lee Bennett Hopkins was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2017. He holds a Guinness Book of Records citation for compiling the most anthologies for children. He has also received the Christopher Award, the Regina Medal, and the National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award. He lives in Florida.

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Reviews

[Emily Elkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading Level: 3.7

Book Summary: This is a collection of poems all about sports.

Bookshelf Genre: Poetry

Characteristics that support the genre: The poems in this book as rhythmic and sound.

Bookshelf Mentor Writing Traits:
Presentation: The pictures that accompany each poem show the reader what each poet is writing about. These pictures help the readers visualize the poems.

Classroom Integration: A lot of young boys like to play sports. I think this would be a good book to include in a poetry unit for these students to see that you can incorporate your love of sports into their poetry. Connecting the content to what they like will be important when trying to reach these young students.

[Kristin Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful poetry book for young children who play sports or are sports fans. There are poems in this collection about baseball, soccer, track and field, ice skating, and basketball. After reading the poems, children could create a poem of their own about their favorite sport.

[Breyanna Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

A poetry book about all sports. Great for younger children in introducing rhyming words.

[Jacqi Coon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I chose this book because if fit the criteria of a poetry book. The book had a lot of poems in them and they were very entertaining. This is a very good book.

[Marsha Valance · Rating 4 out of 5]

My grandson, a first grader, is just getting started reading, but he was delighted with the selection of poems, reading several aloud to me.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great idea for a children's poetry anthology; subtly organized by the seasons; nice variety of sports included. I did not rate it more highly because I found the quality of the poems so uneven. Some are wonderful; others irritate my sense of meter, and even my sense of rhyme.

[Haley Sterritt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this book to use for different types of poetry. It would be good to appeal to the boys in the classroom as it shows that poetry can be written about sports as well! It covers many different types of sports like baseball, football, track, and more. It also has different types of poems.

[Cindy Pardew]

High dive

Outfielder

[Christina Bell]

Picked this poetry book for the boys I know I will have one day. The books cover all the sports. Some rhyme and some are silly. I really like the poems that focused on playing and not always winning.