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Be Amazing! An Inspiring Guide to Being Your Own Champion
In this inspiring and confidence-boosting guide, the cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic Champion, shows kids that with the right mindset, they have the power to do something extraordinary.
As a boy, Chris Hoy never would have believed that he could have achieved his dream of becoming an Olympic Champion. In his first motivational book for children, he shares everything he has learned on his journey to help inspire kids to fulfil their potential and be the best they can be.
The book brings together his incredible personal story with practical ideas for building confidence, resilience and self-belief, as well as dealing with failure. An essential read for any young person with a big dream, this guide shows that anything is possible with a positive attitude!
As a boy, Chris Hoy never would have believed that he could have achieved his dream of becoming an Olympic Champion. In his first motivational book for children, he shares everything he has learned on his journey to help inspire kids to fulfil their potential and be the best they can be.
The book brings together his incredible personal story with practical ideas for building confidence, resilience and self-belief, as well as dealing with failure. An essential read for any young person with a big dream, this guide shows that anything is possible with a positive attitude!
144 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2020
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Chris Hoy
36 books13 followersSir Christopher Andrew Hoy is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
On 18 April 2013, Hoy announced his retirement from competitive cycling. He said he was very proud to have taken part in the transformation of the sport.
Abridged from Wikipedia
On 18 April 2013, Hoy announced his retirement from competitive cycling. He said he was very proud to have taken part in the transformation of the sport.
Abridged from Wikipedia
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November 17, 2020
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Be Amazing! by Olympic Gold Medalist Sir Chris Hoy is an inspirational and motivational tool for children. The book is all about teaching children to believe in themselves, to make the most out of their lives doing the things they enjoy.
The book is split into six sections:-
– Get Inspired
– Dare to Dream
– Feel Positive
– Go For It
– Fantastic Failure
– Enjoy It.
The book covers Chris Hoy’s life from childhood and how he became interested in cycling by a certain 80s movie, to him winning his medals. He uses the skills he learned along the way to help children be the best they can as well as snippets of information from other famous people such as Beyonce, Roger Federer, Ed Sheeran, and Anthony Joshua.
It covers subjects like Overcoming Setbacks, Dream Big, How to be an Amazing Loser, and Attitude. All very important things for children to learn, especially that they can’t always win, but rather than giving up they need to pick themselves up and keep on working at their skills, and one day they will get there.
The book is very wordy, so if you have a child that doesn’t like reading they may struggle with this, but hopefully, they will keep going, perhaps get them to read it in short sections. Also, it sometimes felt like Chris Hoy went on a little bit and some of the sections were a tad boring, especially the beginning where it is pages of text about why he wrote this book.
I like the bright orange cover and the orange illustrations throughout as they certainly make this book stand out and eye-catching.
A worthy and well thought out book that hopefully will help children to see themselves in a better light and to make them understand that if they have a dream they need to work at it and keep going no matter what others say or the past dictates. Doing something you love will make you happy so keep at it.
Be Amazing! by Olympic Gold Medalist Sir Chris Hoy is an inspirational and motivational tool for children. The book is all about teaching children to believe in themselves, to make the most out of their lives doing the things they enjoy.
The book is split into six sections:-
– Get Inspired
– Dare to Dream
– Feel Positive
– Go For It
– Fantastic Failure
– Enjoy It.
The book covers Chris Hoy’s life from childhood and how he became interested in cycling by a certain 80s movie, to him winning his medals. He uses the skills he learned along the way to help children be the best they can as well as snippets of information from other famous people such as Beyonce, Roger Federer, Ed Sheeran, and Anthony Joshua.
It covers subjects like Overcoming Setbacks, Dream Big, How to be an Amazing Loser, and Attitude. All very important things for children to learn, especially that they can’t always win, but rather than giving up they need to pick themselves up and keep on working at their skills, and one day they will get there.
The book is very wordy, so if you have a child that doesn’t like reading they may struggle with this, but hopefully, they will keep going, perhaps get them to read it in short sections. Also, it sometimes felt like Chris Hoy went on a little bit and some of the sections were a tad boring, especially the beginning where it is pages of text about why he wrote this book.
I like the bright orange cover and the orange illustrations throughout as they certainly make this book stand out and eye-catching.
A worthy and well thought out book that hopefully will help children to see themselves in a better light and to make them understand that if they have a dream they need to work at it and keep going no matter what others say or the past dictates. Doing something you love will make you happy so keep at it.
October 23, 2020
If publishers made self-help or motivational books for children, this is the very pinnacle of what they could hope to achieve. Who better to inspire children to aim high and be the best they can be, testing their minds or bodies to the very limits to achieve something incredible, than Olympic Champion and track cyclist Chris Hoy - someone who, I would imagine, never dreamed as a child that they would achieve what they did as an adult.
What I like about this book is that it stays humble. A huge achievement for one child might be something very easy to another, and yet as long as that aim is achieved then success is measurable to them. This book aims to encourage children, more than anything, to dream big. Because why the hell not?
If I'm completely honest, I'm in a fortunate position to be surrounded by incredibly confident children - which means that this book probably had little place. And I think that might be a huge limitation of this novel - the market isn't especially calling out for it, to my knowledge. But for those children who might need it, and for those whom their parents just don't know how to lift their spirits to encourage them to believe in themselves, I genuinely feel this would be a useful mouthpiece to do so.
ARC provided from walker books in exchange for an honest review.
What I like about this book is that it stays humble. A huge achievement for one child might be something very easy to another, and yet as long as that aim is achieved then success is measurable to them. This book aims to encourage children, more than anything, to dream big. Because why the hell not?
If I'm completely honest, I'm in a fortunate position to be surrounded by incredibly confident children - which means that this book probably had little place. And I think that might be a huge limitation of this novel - the market isn't especially calling out for it, to my knowledge. But for those children who might need it, and for those whom their parents just don't know how to lift their spirits to encourage them to believe in themselves, I genuinely feel this would be a useful mouthpiece to do so.
ARC provided from walker books in exchange for an honest review.
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