Even Stevens F.C.

by Michael Rosen (Author), JohnRogan (Illustrator)

New
Paperback
2008
$4.67

A winner from the children's laureate, popular poet and performer Michael Rosen - a must for all football fans. A hilarious full colour comic picture book about a football team. Wayne Travis and his mates may not be the greatest footballers in the world but the happy, multi-cultural team of all ages, both sexes and every permutation of colour and faith, certainly knows how to enjoy the great game. But when they are drawn in the first round of the F.A. Cup, things suddenly start to get serious.

Synopsis

A winner from the children's laureate, popular poet and performer Michael Rosen - a must for all football fans. A hilarious full colour comic picture book about a football team. Wayne Travis and his mates may not be the greatest footballers in the world but the happy, multi-cultural team of all ages, both sexes and every permutation of colour and faith, certainly knows how to enjoy the great game. But when they are drawn in the first round of the F.A. Cup, things suddenly start to get serious.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Publisher: Barn Owl Books
Published: 10 Mar 2008
ISBN 10: 1903015715
ISBN 13: 9781903015711
Book Overview: By the very popular poet Michael Rosen, the children's laureate. A great laugh with comic coloured illustration son every page. Ideal to get boys into reading. A lovely picture of spontaneous multi- culturalism in action, all races, all ages, both sexes together in a joint venture. All about The Beautiful Game

Media Reviews

Wayne Travis and his father Rodney are football crazy but when Rodney's bad knee stops him playing one week, young Wayne steps up to the mark and the team go on to claim victory after victory. Could this oddball team have what it takes to make it to the cup final? Junior Newly confident readers will welcome the reissue of Michael Rosen's comical story about a hotchpotch local team that - more by luck than judgment - ends up playing in the FA Cup final. The ups and downs of everyday life in multiracial Hackney, London, are deftly interwoven into the stuff of football fantasies, with plenty of jokes along the way. Full colour illustrations and a narrative told partly in speech bubbles make this lively book particularly successful with older, reluctant readers. Guardian The hilarious story of how Even Stevens FC gets through to the FA Cup final. With full colour illustrations an d fast-paced, laugh-out-loud text - complete with speech bubbles and news reports - this really is a winner. Junior Education

Author Bio

Michael Rosen is an enormously successful and popular writer, poet, scriptwriter, performer and broadcaster. Winner of the Smarties Award, the Other Award and the Signal Poets Award, he has written more than a hundred children's titles. In 1997 he won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for his outstanding contribution to children's literature, and in 2007 he became the Children's Laureate. To visit Mike Rosen's website click here