Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods - one of them is even a girl - but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition. A funny and moving story of football and friendship in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys - and girls - of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well. And, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.
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An exceptional piece of writing ... comic, poignant and true. Anyone will be enriched by reading it Sunday Times Affectionately downbeat ... this artfully informal story has something for everyone -- Nicholas Tucker Independent This is simply great writing, for boys or anyone else -- Brandon Robshaw Independent
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Allan Ahlberg, former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and gravedigger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over a hundred children's books and is the author of the prize-winning Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. He has also written prize-winning fiction and poems for older readers. Allan lives in Bath.
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The best and worst times of my life occurred, I truly believe, before I was twelve years old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cemetery road, bottom pitch, top pitch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edna May, Tommy Ice Cream, Tommy Pye, Ray Barlow, Joey Skidmore, Ice Cream Jack, Monica Copper, Ronnie Horsfield, Malt Shovel, Albert Pye, Miss Palmer, Tugg Street, Uncle Ike, Tommy Gray, Perrott Street, Malcolm Prosser, Birmingham Road, Rood End Road, Spencer Sorrell, Vincent Loveridge, Arthur Toomey, Perrott Arms, Tabernacle Street, Rounds Green Browse Sample Pages:
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The best and worst times of my life occurred, I truly believe, before I was twelve years old. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cemetery road, bottom pitch, top pitch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edna May, Tommy Ice Cream, Tommy Pye, Ray Barlow, Joey Skidmore, Ice Cream Jack, Monica Copper, Ronnie Horsfield, Malt Shovel, Albert Pye, Miss Palmer, Tugg Street, Uncle Ike, Tommy Gray, Perrott Street, Malcolm Prosser, Birmingham Road, Rood End Road, Spencer Sorrell, Vincent Loveridge, Arthur Toomey, Perrott Arms, Tabernacle Street, Rounds Green Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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