Goal!: Football Around the World

Goal!: Football Around the World

by SeanTaylor (Translator), Caio Vilela (Author)

Synopsis

Where there's a ball ...there will always be someone who wants to play football. New in paperback. This book celebrates a hugely popular game, played all over the world - sometimes on a top quality football pitch, sometimes in the desert, sometimes on the street. With action photographs from 15 countries, this uplifting book shows the joy of football, wherever it is played, as well as its ability to unite children across the globe.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 29 May 2014

ISBN 10: 1847804543
ISBN 13: 9781847804549

Media Reviews
The joy that football brings around the world and its very special ability to link communities is celebrated in the beautiful photographic illustrations to this book. Love Reading A must read book. Bookwitch Listed under top Books for Children This glossy book is filled with cheerful images from all over the world, with a subtext of the unifying nature of the game. Heroes and statistics abound, but more importantly happy faces. Irish Examiner
Author Bio
SEAN TAYLOR is a children's author and storyteller, with experience of teaching creative writing in three continents. His books include The Great Snake, the Purple Class series, The Grizzly Bear with the Frizzly Hair, Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All, Who Ate Auntie Iris, We Have Lift-Off and the multi-award-winning When a Monster is Born. He lives in England and Brazil. CAIO VILELA is a photographer and journalist who has travelled to more than 60 countries, producing stories for newspapers and magazines such as the Brazilian editions of National Geographic, Rolling Stone and Elle. He has also worked as an international tour guide, and takes Brazilian trekkers on the Everest Base Camp trail twice a year. Goal! is his first children's book.