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Michael Hardcastle MBE (6 February 1933 – 17 January 2019) was a British author of sports fiction for children.He has written more than one hundred and forty books on a range of sporting subjects but is probably best known for his books about association football.
The book was written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It deals in part with bereavement and followed the publication of Carrying the Elephant: A Memoir of Love and Loss , which was published in November 2002 after the death of his son Eddie (aged 18), who features as a child in much of his earlier poetry. [ 21 ]
Adrian Mitchell was born on 24 October 1932 [1] near Hampstead Heath, north London.His mother, Kathleen Fabian, was a Fröbel-trained nursery school teacher and his father, Jock Mitchell, a research chemist from Cupar in Fife.
Tom Palmer is a British author of children's books. [2]Palmer was born in Leeds. [3] He cites football articles for getting him interested in reading as a child. [4] He was encouraged to read by his adoptive mother, who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton.. In 1960, Plimpton, not an athlete, arranged to pitch to a lineup of professional baseball players in an All-Star exhibition, presumably to answer the question, "How would the average man off of the street fare in an attempt to compete with the stars of professional sports?"
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Almond's 2014 book Against Football, which documents his growing disillusionment with American football, derived from two pieces written for The New York Times. [5] [6] Almond's second book, Candyfreak (2005) was a New York Times Best Seller and won the American Library Association Alex Award and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year.
On Saturday 23 July 1898, the Melbourne weekly newspaper The Leader published The Footballers' Alphabet.. The poem, which had been written by its influential (Australian Rules) football correspondent, "Follower", [1] delivered a brief comment on a number of the most prominent Australian Rules footballers playing in Melbourne in 1898 -- the second year of the VFL competition -- presented in the ...