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Let's play! : poems about sports and games from around the world / illustrated by Shirin Adl ; edited by Debjani Chatterjee, Brian D'Arcy.

London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2013.

53 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Collects thirty-seven poems celebrating such sports and games as football, baseball, judo, table tennis, netball, cycling, chess, and scrabble.

Sports -- Juvenile poetry.

Games -- Juvenile poetry.

Children's poetry.

Adl, Shirin, illustrator.

Chatterjee, Debjani, editor.

D'Arcy, Brian G. (Brian Gerard), editor.

Poems about sports and games from around the world

"Janetta Otter-Barry books."

Vitai lampada Sir Henry Newbolt -- The new Gavaskar / Asit Maitra -- The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A skipping game / Bashabi Fraser -- A-tisket a-tasket / Anonymous -- Tic tac toe / Anonymous -- I wouldn't go to missie / Anonymous -- Scrabble / Rob Walton -- Chess haiku / Debjani Chatterjee -- Shaap-ludo / Susmita Bhattacharya -- Computer game / Charles Thomson -- Swimming lesson / Denny Davis -- Olympic diver in a holiday pool / Mandy Coe -- Shot put / Ann Atkinson -- Pole vault / River Wolton -- The world's fastest bicycle / Kenn Nesbitt -- 4 x 100m / Rob Walton -- When my friend Anita runs / Grace Nichols -- Toboggan / Colin West -- Toboggan / David Whitehead -- Hockey / Ryan Banks -- The skater boys / Wes Magee -- Boxing poem / Muhammad Ali and Drew Bundini Brown -- On the outside of a judoka / Anonymous -- My puppy punched me in the eye / Kenn Nesbitt -- Tennis doubles trouble / Greg Pincus -- Let's play ping-pong / Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D'Arcy -- Netball / Ann Bonner -- Take me out to the ball game / Jack Norworth -- Baseball / Ryan Banks -- Basketball / Grace Butcher -- Kite flying / Debjani Chatterjee -- My pony / Brian D'Arcy -- Right royal (extract) / John Masefield -- Surfing / Sasha Walker/Mills -- The football team / Roger Stevens -- Alumnus football Grantland Rice -- About the games and sports.

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