The Beautiful Game

Author: Alan Gibbons

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Price : $21.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781781126912
Publisher : Barrington Stoke, Limited
Imprint : Barrington Stoke Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.13
Publication date : 01 March 2017
Dimensions : 198mm X 130mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 10.96
Availability date : 01 April 2017
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Author : Alan Gibbons
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Bind : Paperback
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Illustrator : Chris Chalik
Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.92
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Pages : 72
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Illustrations : Approx. 10 black and white illustrations
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Description

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, this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

Author description

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, Alan is a high profile library campaigner.