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10 recommendations for World Cup themed books

As the football World Cup approaches, we are delighted to host a guest post from best selling author Tom Palmer.

In this guest booklist, Tom discusses his top 10 recommendations for World Cup themed books to inspire reading among young football fans.

Reading for pleasure often begins with what the reader is passionate about. For many people that is football. And, with a World Cup this year, this is a great time to engage football fans with reading through the extraordinary wealth of fiction and non-fiction for kids. Available from bookshops and libraries, here’s a list of ten books with World Cup potential.

Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton
 & Spike Gerrell
Non-fiction
A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You will find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as history, geography, biology and maths. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football. Your coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach you how to score with your head.

Tom Palmer is the author of thirty plus sports stories for children. They feature spies, detectives, ghosts and figures from history. Find out more about his books at www.tompalmer.co.uk.

Tom also has a wealth of free classroom literacy resources relating to the World Cup on his website: http://tompalmer.co.uk/world-cup-2018-literacy-resources/.

Many thanks to Tom for sharing these great suggestions with us.

You might also like our recent review of Tom’s ‘Defenders’ series.

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