Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia

by Mary Varilla

The Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia is packed with amazing step-by-step full-color illustrations and clear explanations, showing kids how more than 100 popular sports are played. From archery and baseball to skateboarding and water polo, and every imaginanable sport in between, the Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia shows kids the rules, skills, and strategies of 100+ sports. They'll be captivated by the unique, sequential illustrations that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439317215
• ISBN13: 9780439317214
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

Presents up-to-date rules and regulations in a readable fashion

The Scholastic Visual Sports book presents the current court positions played by basketball players, as well as the current referee signs and a readable explanation for infractions to the rules (e.g. traveling, double-dribble). A 13-year old Russian boy living in Germany that I am tutoring in English really likes this book, and reads it out loud to me, word for word. That is, this book is useful to teach English as a second (or third) language to young sports fans. My German husband thinks that the sections on ocean surfing and windsurfing look cool. Compared with the DK Eyewitness Sports book, this book presents up-to-date rules and regulations in a readable fashion for a sport like basketball, while the Eyewitness Sports book presents much less information about basketball, and what it presents is purely historic.

Very, very, very, good and useful book!!!

I was happy to get this book!! It's excellent!! Very useful and very interesting for all ages!!