My Beautiful Game

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Polly’s dramatic wartime story celebrates those bold young players who changed attitudes to women on the pitch and salutes the unsung heroes on the Home Front too. When her brother Joe is sent to serve in the trenches, all Polly wants is to kick a ball about and forget the war. Lou Kuenzler is the author of a LOT of books for children, including My Digger is Bigger, Eat Your People, the Shrinking Violet series, the Princess DisGrace series, the Bella Broomstick series and Not Yet, Zebra. There is something scarily steely about her dismissal of the subject: 'Like all men in their weakness, Sven looked like a little boy forlorn,' she says of the former England coach's attempts to excuse himself.

Having sought the support and permission from Bobby’s family at the wake following the funeral, within days, I sat down at my keyboard, as I have done so often over the past few years, having written five previous books on the history of the club that we all love, including my last book on my very first football hero, Derek Kevan, aka ‘The Tank’ and the words just started to pour out of my very soul for the ensuing five months or so. For the first 150 pages, she relates in loving detail the story of her humble beginnings in Bari, her university career at NYU, her unstoppable rise to the top rungs of legal and political life in Rome. Our young reviewer loved this story inspired by real women that has been written by Lou Kuenzler and published by Faber. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. com will use the information you provide on this form to keep in touch with you and to provide updates about World Book Day.She is the author of numerous books for children, including My Digger is Bigger, Eat Your People, the Shrinking Violet series, the Princess DisGrace series, the Bella Broomstick series, Not Yet, Zebra, Calm Down, Zebra and Our Beautiful Game. I'm Asha and the one constant in my life is that I have always had an enormous, overflowing pile of books to read.

As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator on the game, he knows all the key figures of the sport and has witnessed first-hand some of cricket's greatest moments. I do not particularly like sports especially football so when I read the blurb of this book and it told me that one of it’s main themes, maybe its most featured theme, is football I was sceptical, but interested. It's a story which millions think they know already, from the acres of purely speculative newsprint which this fascinating woman has generated.Content warnings: misogyny; sickness from working in munitions; injury, including off-page amputation and scarring, and death, including major character death and death of a sibling; grief; PTSD with on-page panic attack; explosions; general discussion of war and death; childbirth. Evidence of its impact is continuing to pile up, from Jeff Astle's death in 2002 being ruled as a result of heading footballs to Sir Bobby Charlton becoming the fifth member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side to be diagnosed with the disease. This book covers many aspects of the game from personal recollection to discussion of many of the challenges facing the game and looks back and evaluates great plyers. This fantastic novel opened a window into a period of history we’ve not seen in many children’s books. In addition to that, I actually found the football scenes enthralling, which really surprised me – far from being dry sporting stuff, they’re full of character work and I ended up really rooting for Polly and her team in each match.

It’s really stunning, and I’m ever so glad it fell through my letterbox – I would not have picked this up otherwise, and I would really have missed out. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. She is the author of numerous books for children, including My Digger is Bigger, Eat Your People, the Shrinking Violet series, the Princess DisGrace series, the Bella Broomstick series, Not Yet, Zebra, Calm Down, Zebra and Our Beautiful Game.It feels so realistic in its depiction of working-class women in WW1 – Polly’s mum is only a side character in the very start and end of the story, and still her story will stick with me. The Beautiful Game and The Ugly Truth is an emotive examination of football and its ties to dementia. The war years: a time of trailblazing female footballers, like the legendary Lily Parr, who played to sell-out crowds.

We are a monthly book subscription by post for children aged 5 to 14, focused on helping families discover new and different chapter books. I’ve heard about how revolutionary women’s football was but had never read about the subject or found out about it. Sven's dalliances with Ulrika and Faria are dispatched with a swiftness quite disheartening for the Hello! Full of passion and energy, OBG brilliantly brings the Home Front to life, showing the challenges women faced on and off the pitch. We're a proudly small and independent specialist children's book business based in New Malden, South West London.He helped to lift English cricket out of the sporting gloom of the late 1990s; and now he has chronicled his era as if he were one of us. Inspired by the incredible real life stories of trailblazing women footballers like Lily Parr, it's a story of football, feminism and friendship.