Score!: 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire [Hardcover]

Charles Ghigna (Author), Julia Gorton (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up

A great inspirational gift for graduation, National Poetry Month, and all year long

Bestselling children’s poet Charles “Father Goose” Ghigna has crafted fifty energizing poems for children, parents, teachers, and coaches filled with fun metaphors and reassuring rhymes. Score! is a unique collection that encourages children to reach for their dreams and stay on the path to success. Young athletes will read these poems and be motivated, students studying for a test will be energized, and any young person who is working toward a goal or trying to leap over one of life’s many hurdles will be galvanized.

Exuberant illustrations by Julia Gorton translate these wise words into scenes on the playground, lessons in the classroom, and soothing images in nature so that children will feel hopeful and self-assured when life throws them a curveball.

Achievements often come when we
Forget our fears and try;
For that’s when we accomplish what
We’re most remembered by.

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About the Author

Charles “Father Goose” Ghigna is the author of seventeen books of poetry for children, including Animal Trunk and Animal Tracks. He is excited to share his poems with a new audience of older readers. He lives in Alabama.

Julia Gorton is the illustrator and designer of many books, including The Gumdrop Tree. She teaches graphic design at Parsons the New School for Design and lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810994887
• ISBN-13: 978-0810994881
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 10.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,800,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles Ghigna (FATHER GOOSE) is the author of more than 50 award-winning books from Random House, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams and other publishers. His books have been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America," PBS and NPR. He is a poet, children's author, speaker, and nationally syndicated feature writer who promotes the love of poetry and children's literature throughout the world and the author of more than 5000 poems for children and adults. His poems have appeared in hundreds of textbooks, anthologies, magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. His poems also appear in the national SAT and ACT tests. He has served as poetry editor of The English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English and has presented poetry programs at the Library of Congress, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Library in Paris, the International Schools of South America and at hundreds of other schools, colleges, conferences, libraries, book fairs, and literary events throughout the world.

For more information, please visit the Father Goose web site at www.FatherGoose.com