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Poetry comes alive on the basketball court. Feel the rough roundness of the ball. Celebrate the soaring freedom of the dunk. Savor the moment when all eyes focus on the long three-pointer.
In dynamic words and pictures, award-winning author Robert Burleigh and Caldecott Honor-artist Stephen T. Johnson capture the energy and passion that electrifies every moment in a game of hoops.

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"If you’ve ever played basketball, you know the feelings you have during the game. On offense, you have the adrenaline pumping through your body, ready to be released. You know the feeling of going back and forth, back and forth, with nothing happening. You know the excitement, when you make the ball go into the hoop and hear that sound, that swish. On defense, you know the waiting. You know the watching, just waiting to attack. You know the powerful feeling, when stealing the ball and getting that feeling of having the court to yourself, just you and the hoop. You know all of these feelings. Robert Burleigh does a really good job in describing the feelings of basketball in his book Hoops.
Hoops, illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson, is an amazing book about the game of basketball. This isn’t the only book that both Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson collaborated on, they also collaborated the book called Goal. You can definitely tell that the chemistry is there, and that they love working together. The words in this book and the pictures are wonderful, so I can see why they work together.
I like how Burleigh words a lot of the things in basketball such as: “The feathery fingertip roll /and slow soft slow drop. Instead of saying the finger roll drop in to the basket.” He uses feathery fingertip roll to describe it since a finger roll really is a soft touch of your finger tips. By that line you can tell that he uses a lot of detail and really knows basketball.
His first and last lines repeat: “Hoops. / The game. / Feel it.” I think it gives the book a nice three lines and last three lines to end and start the book of with. I think it tells you to basically understand the game of basketball and like it. That's why I say the book is not only good for hoopers but for sports fans; you can relate it to your own life and think of ways to “feel” the sport that you play.
This book muses on about the game of basketball, and how its played. It has a lot of feelings in it and aspects of the game, such as shooting, defense, and the flow. It also talks about the rhythm of basketball, and how it's kind of like a back and forth game. Throughout the book the author wants you to feel the game of basketball, and how it's played.
The illustrator also does a magnificent job on this book. To me it looks like they are outside playing a game right during the sun setting and night time. I say that because of the dark and orange backgrounds that are in the majority of the pictures on each page. I also like how all of the colors go together. What I mean by that is, he doesn’t have orange and pink, he has colors that fit really well together, such as different shades of orange and yellow.
This book really has a poetry vibe from its nice rhythm. I personally could relate to a lot of things that was said in this book, from the no-look passes to the shooting with arms in your face.
I would definitely recommend this book to any sports lovers. Although, I think that if you don't know much about basketball you might not understand, but it's always a good way to learn about other sports. I also think that the pictures really describe the words that are being said in the book, which is why I think the illustrations are really nice. I also think that whether this is a children's book or not, anybody can read it ,that's how good it is."

Product details Age Range 4 - 7 years Grade Level Preschool - 3 Lexile Measure AD460L (What's this?) Paperback 32 pages Publisher HMH Books for Young Readers; First edition (October 1, 2001) Language English ISBN-10 0152163808

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Hoops Robert Burleigh Stephen T Johnson Books Reviews :

Hoops Robert Burleigh Stephen T Johnson Books Reviews

• A great read aloud to show sentence fluency!
• Good book.
• Using Robert Burleigh’s Hoops as a Mentor Text in High School
  
  “Hoops. The game. Feel it.”
  
  These brief sentences which open and close Robert Burleigh’s Hoops just about say it all. Literally. This children’s book is unexpectedly poetic, and, when the buzzer sounds, you will have a clear impression of how it feels to play the game. But that’s all you’ll have.
  The world may break down into nerds and jocks, and I’m definitely a nerd, so read this with that in mind. I am also a high school English teacher, so I am considering this book from the standpoint of using it as a non-threatening introduction to literary skills my students will later tackle in a more challenging way. At a recent literacy workshop we were given a stack of children’s books to study for the sake of writing a review. I initially set Hoops to the side, but then I thought, “That’s so predictable. I should try something new!” Et voila.
  Robert Burleigh’s text presents a series of sensory impressions apparently intended to capture the feeling of the game. He succeeds in this goal with a level of poetic skill that surprised me in a sports-themed text. When I read, “The smooth, skaterly glide and sudden swerve…The sideways slip through a moment of narrow space,” the sibilant sounds facilitate the flow of the text while accentuating, “The never-stop back and forth flow [of the game], like tides going in, going out.” The vaguely synesthetic mixing of time and space create a moment of intellectual confusion that likely mirrors the visceral focus of the game, and even the asyndetic construction conveys a sense of the emotional economy of the action.
  Burleigh’s apt language, though, does not entirely make up for the snapshot nature of the text. The anonymous blurb on the back cover may be to blame for that. It promises that the book is about, “The drama of a game…and of victory. Sport, poetry, friendship, teamwork.” While Burleigh delivers the drama and, to a minor extent, the victory, there is nothing stated, illustrated or even implied about friendship or teamwork. The imagery of the book, in fact, is highly individualistic, as when he characterizes the individual player as a stallion or a wolf leaping from the pack.
  For all I know, of course, the author had no knowledge of what would end up on the cover, so I can’t really blame him for that. If his intention is to make his audience feel the game, he succeeds. I can’t say the same for Johnson’s illustrations. The soft pastels belie the nature of the action in general. To be fair, most of the pages at least present supportive representations of the narrative—a picture of players’ feet appears on the page that mentions burning asphalt, and “a thicket of arms” is splashed below a shot of arms reaching upward. On some of the pages, though, the pictures do not seem to reflect (let alone enrich) the content of the text. “The cool” is accompanied by a partial picture of a player hoisting the ball, face obscured—not cool in any way. The player who is supposed to be “out-in-the-clear like a stallion with wind in [his] face” is practically being embraced by his opponent. Overall, the interplay between text and image is not nearly as synergistic as it should be in children’s book we would recognize as great.
  Some of the testimonials on the back cover reflect my experience with Hoops. Publishers Weekly labels it, “Sensuous,” which, while underwhelming, is entirely accurate. Booklist tells us it is, “An involving experience.” Also accurate. I don’t know which writer at the Boston Globe, however, was bribed to flatter the author with the label, “Spellbinding.” That, it is not.
  Will Hoops become one of my all-time favorites? No.
  Am I glad I picked it up? Somewhat.
  Do I have a better appreciation for the allure of the game? Yes.
  While I would not use this book to scaffold my students toward a close reading or to prepare them for most kinds of writing we do in high school or college, it is an appropriate book for some spot lessons on figurative language, and it might catch the eye of a few of my athletically inclined students more so than some of the other books I use for those purposes. I will probably add it to my picture-book library.
  
  Hoops. The book. Consider it.
• Do you remember the freedom and joy of playing a pick-up game of basketball at the park?
  
  No sweat, no fouls, no bad calls… only exhilaration!
  
  Immerse yourself in the magical moments, joy, rhythm, expectancy and the hunter’s skill of basketball in Robert Burleigh’s Hoops. You will experience the “skaterly glide and sudden swerve” as you dodge past your opponents. You will sense “the feathery fingertip roll” as the ball leaves your hand. Burleigh allows you to feel the “the fox’s lurk and hunger, and “the stallion’s wind in your face” as you sprint down the court. You will execute “the skitter cat-footed dance” as you edge along the baseline.
  
  Every page of Hoops is filled with beautiful pencil sketches that show the movement, power and beauty of basketball. Stephen T. Johnson juxtaposes the concise and energetic words of Burleigh with more impressionistic, fluid illustrations. Johnson adds texture and depth to sketches by blending charcoaled earth tone colors to show the players’ intensity, drive and love of the game.
  
  Hoops lets you be the player… be the team… be the game.
• If you’ve ever played basketball, you know the feelings you have during the game. On offense, you have the adrenaline pumping through your body, ready to be released. You know the feeling of going back and forth, back and forth, with nothing happening. You know the excitement, when you make the ball go into the hoop and hear that sound, that swish. On defense, you know the waiting. You know the watching, just waiting to attack. You know the powerful feeling, when stealing the ball and getting that feeling of having the court to yourself, just you and the hoop. You know all of these feelings. Robert Burleigh does a really good job in describing the feelings of basketball in his book Hoops.
  Hoops, illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson, is an amazing book about the game of basketball. This isn’t the only book that both Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson collaborated on, they also collaborated the book called Goal. You can definitely tell that the chemistry is there, and that they love working together. The words in this book and the pictures are wonderful, so I can see why they work together.
  I like how Burleigh words a lot of the things in basketball such as “The feathery fingertip roll /and slow soft slow drop. Instead of saying the finger roll drop in to the basket.” He uses feathery fingertip roll to describe it since a finger roll really is a soft touch of your finger tips. By that line you can tell that he uses a lot of detail and really knows basketball.
  His first and last lines repeat “Hoops. / The game. / Feel it.” I think it gives the book a nice three lines and last three lines to end and start the book of with. I think it tells you to basically understand the game of basketball and like it. That's why I say the book is not only good for hoopers but for sports fans; you can relate it to your own life and think of ways to “feel” the sport that you play.
  This book muses on about the game of basketball, and how its played. It has a lot of feelings in it and aspects of the game, such as shooting, defense, and the flow. It also talks about the rhythm of basketball, and how it's kind of like a back and forth game. Throughout the book the author wants you to feel the game of basketball, and how it's played.
  The illustrator also does a magnificent job on this book. To me it looks like they are outside playing a game right during the sun setting and night time. I say that because of the dark and orange backgrounds that are in the majority of the pictures on each page. I also like how all of the colors go together. What I mean by that is, he doesn’t have orange and pink, he has colors that fit really well together, such as different shades of orange and yellow.
  This book really has a poetry vibe from its nice rhythm. I personally could relate to a lot of things that was said in this book, from the no-look passes to the shooting with arms in your face.
  I would definitely recommend this book to any sports lovers. Although, I think that if you don't know much about basketball you might not understand, but it's always a good way to learn about other sports. I also think that the pictures really describe the words that are being said in the book, which is why I think the illustrations are really nice. I also think that whether this is a children's book or not, anybody can read it ,that's how good it is.