Coy, John Hoop
Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball Illustrated
by Joe Morse Carolrhoda Books, 2013 PICTURE BOOK
$16.95 Content: G.
James Naismith started to teach a rowdy out of control gym class
in 1891. In his attempts to get the boys
under control he tried all different kinds of sports, but the boys always
played them too rough, so eventually Mr. Naismith came up with the idea of
basketball. The boys liked it so much
they wanted to play it all the time.
When they went home for Christmas break the taught all of their friends,
and eventually the game of basketball spread.
This is a simply history of the game of basketball. The illustrations are perfect and the inside
cover has the original rules of basketball printed. The back cover has a short biography about
James Naismith. This is an interesting
book that helps the reader appreciate where basketball came from and how it has
developed into the sport that it is today.
This would be fun to use in a physical education class for the unit on
basketball.
EL, MS-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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