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  • Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms

Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms

Author
Charles R Smith
Publication Date
April 03, 2000
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Reference Book
Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms
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Description
The power, strength, and determination of the game of basketball are captured in striking photographs and sizzling stories, poems, and personal reflections. From frustration to humor, joy, and triumph, this streetwise look at a favorite American pastime conveys all the passion and excitement of the sport.
Publication date
April 03, 2000
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780140566789
Lexile Measure
810
Publisher
Puffin Books
BISAC categories
JNF034000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Literary Criticism & Collections
JNF054020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball

Kirkus

Smith closes with another tribute, to the African-American athletes, musicians, and artists who have meant the most to him.  
Charles R Smith
Charles R. Smith Jr. is the author of sports poetry titles such as Hoop Kings, Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty, Hoop Queens, and Soccer Queens, as well as Pick-Up Game, Chameleon, and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali. He is also the recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his photographs in My People, an adaptation of the Langston Hughes poem. Charles R. Smith Jr. lives in New York.

Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia. He is the illustrator of many books for kids, and his work has been featured by the New Yorker, the New York Times, the BBC, and more. He also illustrated Islandborn by Junot Díaz, a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor Book. Leo Espinosa lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007)
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Winner 2000 - 2000
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