Picture Book 24 --- Baseball Hour

Title: Baseball Hour
Author: Carol Nevius
Illustrator: Bill Thomson
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Picture book
Characters:Classmates and coach
Themes: teamwork, baseball, sports, friends
Awards: N/A
Publishing Date: 2008
Publishing Company: Amazon Publishing Company
Summary: The book talks about a class that goes outside and begins to warm up for a baseball game. The kids perform all of the activities that take place during a baseball game. They do the exercises together and some of the separate. Then after the class has warmed up the game begins.The team has little spatters about how the game is going but have to work together to win the game. In the end of the game the team realizes that teamwork is important and that it is what makes all of them better players. I would use this book to again interest boys in reading. Boys are always harder to interest in independent reading. Most boys love sports and this will really appeal to them.Boys need to understand how important reading is too, and this may just do the trick.