{"id":20390,"date":"2013-08-05T20:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2013-08-05T20:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:34:45","slug":"review-of-hoop-genius-by-john-coy-and-joe-morse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20390","title":{"rendered":"Review of Hoop Genius, by John Coy and Joe Morse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hoop_genius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hoop_genius.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hoop_genius\" width=\"135\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21450\" \/><\/a><em>Hoop Genius<br \/>\nHow a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by John Coy<br \/>\nillustrations by Joe Morse<\/p>\n<p>Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 2013.  40 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Hoop Genius<\/em> is a simple picture book about the invention of basketball.  The story it tells is pretty much summed up in the subtitle:  James Naismith was a desperate teacher who\u2019d taken on a gym class that had already forced two teachers to quit.  But the author and illustrator dramatize that story in an exciting way (showing the young men in the class with progressively more injuries, for example).  Then they show where Naismith got the idea (from a childhood game) and how he worked out the rules with his class.  Then briefly, we\u2019re shown how basketball took off.  (James Naismith met his wife when she played in a women\u2019s game he refereed.)<\/p>\n<p>I love the endpapers \u2013 with copies of the first draft of the rules of basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The story\u2019s simple, but so interesting!  This marvelous presentation of the story of how Basketball began will captivate readers of all ages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lernerbooks.com\">lernerbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nonfiction-monday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nonfiction-monday.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nonfiction-monday\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21449\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m posting this review tonight in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/shelf-employed.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/angel-island-gateway-to-gold-mountain.html\">Nonfiction Monday<\/a>, hosted today at <a href=\"http:\/\/shelf-employed.blogspot.com\/\">Shelf Employed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0761366172\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/hoop_genius.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/hoop_genius.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoop Genius How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball by John Coy illustrations by Joe Morse Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 2013. 40 pages. Starred Review Hoop Genius is a simple picture book about the invention of basketball. The story it tells is pretty much summed up in the subtitle: James Naismith was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}