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The Beautiful Game (#1)
Alan Gibbons
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Description for The Beautiful Game (#1)
Paperback. Fact and fiction intertwine in this heartfelt tribute to football, honouring victims of Hillsborough and other disasters, and celebrating trailblazing black players. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+ Illustrator(s): Chalik, Chris. Num Pages: 72 pages, Approx. 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AR; YFB. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, ... Read more
At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Barrington Stoke Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781126912
SKU
V9781781126912
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Alan Gibbons
Alan Gibbons has written over 60 books and won many prestigious awards such as the Blue Peter Award for 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down', the Angus Book Award and the Stockport Book Award. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal and his books have been published into dozens of languages. As well as being a writer, ... Read more
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