Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new,...
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Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy or someone's going to get hurt. Saving this class is going to take a genius. Discover the true story of how Naismith invented basketball in 1891 at a school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780761366171 (0761366172)
ASIN: 0761366172
Publish date: 2013-01-01
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Juvenile,
Picture Books,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Basketball,
Historical
Morse's illustrations are mesmerizing. I looked and relooked at the wildly exagerrated figure drawings of the gym class. The crowded compositions ensure overlapping of huge hands, lanky arms and too-long necks, and mustachioed heads. The feeling of chaos told about in the text is told much further a...
Well done story about the gym teacher who invented basketball. Cool illustrations.
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