NASCAR ABC

by Christopher Jordan

Overview

An exciting new NASCAR series for the youngest of racing fans.
 
Introduce your children to the early basic concepts through the exciting world of NASCAR in this officially licensed NASCAR series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770494336
Publisher:	Tundra
Publication date:	10/23/2012
Series:	My First NASCAR Racing Series , #2
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Christopher Jordan is an avid sports fan. He has played competitive hockey, baseball, and football and even drove in a kart racing league. He is a published children's book author and father of three great kids that he is now introducing to the exciting world of sports. He and his wife and their children live in Toronto, Canada. 
 
NASCAR is the sanctioning body for one of North America's premier sports. NASCAR is the No. 1 spectator sport - with more of the top 20 highest attended sporting events in the U.S.A than any other sport, and is the No. 2 rated regular season sport on television. NASCAR races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages. NASCAR fans are the most brand loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport. Most NASCAR races see over 100,000 fans in attendance and last year's retail sales of NASCAR licensed products surpassed 3 billion dollars in sales.

Editorial Reviews

A poorly designed and sometimes overly abstract introduction to NASCAR for the very young. "A is for automobile. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars are very cool automobiles." The text progresses through the rest of the alphabet in a similar fashion. Each highly saturated page features a bold upper- and lowercase letter at the top, a photo of the object in the middle and a caption below. Some of the photos are eye-catching, such as those of the cars, a blimp and a checkered flag, but most are so heavily cropped that they lose context. The picture of the engine floats isolated on the page, and the image of the oval track is small and strangely warped. A few of the choices are far too confusing for toddlers to grasp, such as "qualify" for the letter Q. Others in the series use the same format and also have issues of clarity. In NASCAR Colors some of the photos of cars and uniformed drivers only hint at the hue in question. NASCAR Shapes pairs a simple image of a shape with a NASCAR photo and is a little more successful, but the trapezoid windshield looks quite odd detached from a car. NASCAR 123 takes readers up to 12, but again, the isolated images surrounded by white outlines will only mystify. With the popularity of NASCAR and the love many toddlers express for vehicles, it is a shame these books could not cross the finish line. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews