Let's Play Baseball

by Nancy Hall

Overview

Let’s play ball! Learn all about baseball with this shaped board book that looks and feels like a real baseball!

Perfect for anyone who wants to get their child started early, Let’s Play Baseball teaches little ones the basic terms of the game. Shaped like a baseball, the book also features a textured, padded cover with stitching that feels like the real thing! Photographic interiors feature simple text that focuses on the joy of the game for kids and parents alike. Because having fun is the most important part!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534403994
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	02/13/2018
Series:	Let's Play
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Nancy Hall is the author of the Let’s Play board book series.

Editorial Reviews

2018-03-04
A baseball-shaped primer for the littlest sluggers.Brimming with baseball facts, each round page presents heavily captioned photos and one or two sentences of declarative text. Baseball vocabulary abounds, and little ones can learn the names of the equipment, the positions, various kinds of pitches ("The pitch can be a curveball, slider, fastball, or sinker"), and a few different rules ("If the batter hits the ball, they run to first base"). In the photos, almost all the players, who have a range of hair lengths and look as though they could be both male and female, are white. The final double-page spread shows two different celebratory shots of two apparently all-white Little League teams, with nary a person of color in sight. The small trim size is approximately 5 inches in diameter, which confines the little action that is portrayed, and the narrow binding will likely not survive robust play or library circulation. While it is (mostly) an appropriately simple introduction to the sport, the lack of player diversity is discouraging, if not out-and-out astonishing. (Board book. 2-3)

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