A review by librarianryan
Catch the Ball by Bryan Smith

inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

 
This book is coming from Boys Town Press. And I’m happy to say it did not stick to the usual format of give us a lesson a pneumonic to remember the lesson and then three examples of the lesson and use. This does not do that, and it already makes it a better book. In this, we have a boy who’s good at sports and another team member who’s good at a different sport. And the boy who’s not so good at football tells the boy that is good at football that I don’t like you yelling at me to catch the ball. It makes me feel bad. The good at sports boy is like you’re right. I don’t like that when coach does that to me, and he has the same conversation with coach and it makes everything better in the end. The lesson is there and it’s memorable.  I do you think the story is long for story time but in a classroom setting, I think it could work well.