The Funny Life of Football – WINNER of The Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year 2023
£7.00£7.60 (-8%)
WINNER of the Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book Prize 2023
“Every page is guaranteed to grab the imagination and it’s the perfect thing for dipping into at half time.” Love Reading 4 Kids
A hilarious fact and fiction hybrid from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own.
Want to know why OCTOPUSES can’t play football? And how to play the game across multiple DIMENSIONS? How about learning the REAL RULES of how football is played, why Henry VIII banned it, plus where it came from and who the greatest players of ALL TIME are?
Whether you love a game of TABLE FOOTBALL, can’t get enough of BACK-GARDEN BALL, only enjoy the game from your SOFA or would sooner swim with sharks than play it, if you LOVE to LAUGH – then this is the book for you!
But be warned – this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between. From comedian extraordinaire James Campbell, get ready to laugh your BUTT off to a silly book filled with funny stories, partly-true facts and hilarious pictures that will make you think twice about the game everyone thinks they know so well.
Read more
Additional information
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Children's Books (18 Aug. 2022) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 152662799X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1526627995 |
| Reading age | 7 – 9 years |
| Dimensions | 19 x 1.9 x 15.2 cm |
by Amy
My 8 year old loves these books & he is a very harsh critic! He can read them to himself as there’s a good ratio of words to writing for that age group. I can hear him laugh out loud to himself whilst he’s reading.
by Radamastus
Great book, interesting, unexpected and wide ranging. Good for children and adults. I think it would make a great reader for children who can read independently, but also to read aloud with your children, and would be a fab present for adults too, especially those who have lots of books on football. It would be funny and something different.