Puss in Boots - Couverture souple

Blair, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406226602 ISBN 13 : 9781406226607

Editeur : Raintree Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Introduce young readers to the captivating world of classic fairy tales with these easy-to-read retellings.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Courtland, the Scrooge-like owner of the Central City Champs thinks he knows the National Pastime. He lets the baseball men make the baseball decisions while he concerns himself with TV revenues, season ticket sales, merchandising deals, skyboxes, lawyers and agents and escalating player salaries. Thats what owners do. They count the money. And thats what baseball is all about. Money. His eight-year-old grandson, Jordan, lives in a world in which baseball is an activity run by grownups. Its all about official rules, official distances, and official uniforms. Its about playing in front of your parents and running laps for your coaches and selling candy bars to raise money. Its a pastime thats directed, organized and scheduled by grownups to entertain other grownups at hours convenient to those grownups. That baseball.Courtlands Spirits is the story of what happens when John Courtland meets the Spirits of Baseball Past, Baseball Present, and Baseball Future, and how it affects him, his team, and those around himfrom his whining star pitcher to his grandson Jordan. He learns what all of us have always known but are constantly forgettingbaseball is about HITTINGPITCHING RUNNING FIELDINGTHROWING

Biographie de l'auteur

Donald Lehmann is a dispatcher in Mokena, and has no connection to baseball, no special expertise or inside knowledge of the game. His credentials for writing Courtlands Spirits derive from a lifetime of following a team that hasnt won a championship since 1917.A graduate of Knox College and the Iowa Writers Workshop, he taught at Parsons College, then worked as a systems analyst in Chicago. In recent years he has worked as a training developer, writing courses in video, text, and computer-based formats for corporate clients. He has been downsized more than once, and has used the subsequent periods of unemployment/underemployment to write fiction.His children and grandchildren live in Massachusetts and Illinois.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Raintree Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406226602
• ISBN 13: 9781406226607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible