Hoop Kings

By Charles R. Smith Jr.

Book Overview

With pumping, energetic, rap-inspired wordplay, Charles R. Smith Jr. profiles the distinctive styles of the best players in basketball Tim Duncan cashes in double-digit points by banking it off the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076363560X
• ISBN13: 9780763635602
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.2" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Collection - only wish it was longer!

These poems are wonderful - each takes a different approach to characterizing the talent and personalities of these basketball superstars. I have found the poems to appeal to my male students, which is significant and valuable to me, as they are often the students I encounter the greatest resistance from in their first contact with poetry as a form. My only compliant? I just wish the author had included more poems! The ones he wrote are wonderful, but there are only about a dozen. It is quite a slim volume!