Clothesline Clues to Sports People Play
Written by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook
Illustrated by Andy Robert Davies
Kids love sports, riddles, and colorful pictures. This new book combines them all. Readers are given a four line, rhyming riddle about the pictures on the double page spread showing uniform pieces on a clothesline. The appropriate other pieces of sports equipment are on the ground. The following page gives the answer to the riddle and shows the particular game in progress.
Children will love guessing from picture clues and looking to see if the category of sports uniforms and equipment are complete. Core curriculum standards of literacy will be met using this book in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or in ESL classes. Teachers, librarians and daycare providers will want to add this book to their collection. Surely, kids will return to this book time and time again. Second grade readers will enjoy reading these riddles to younger siblings at home.
The characters represent a diverse group of children and the sports represented include common, as well as uncommon, sports and will broaden children’s understandings of unfamiliar sports.
Title: Clothesline Clues to Sports People Play- Author: Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook
- Illustrator: Andy Robert Davies
- Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2015
- Reviewer: Elizabeth Swartz
- Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-58089-602-4
- Genre: Nonfiction Picture Book
- Grade level: PreK to 1