{"id":38589,"date":"2021-07-02T23:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38589"},"modified":"2021-07-02T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:23:18","slug":"review-of-play-like-a-girl-by-kate-t-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38589","title":{"rendered":"Review of Play Like a Girl, by Kate T. Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/play_like_a_girl_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/play_like_a_girl_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39598\" \/><\/a><em>Play Like a Girl<\/p>\n<p>Life Lessons from the Soccer Field<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Kate T. Parker<\/p>\n<p>Workman Publishing, 2020.  204 pages.<br \/>\nReview written October 31, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p><em>Play Like a Girl<\/em> is another book packed with wonderful action shots of people from the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/strong_is_the_new_pretty.html\">Strong Is the New Pretty<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/heart_of_a_boy.html\">The Heart of a Boy<\/a><\/em>.  This book features female soccer players \u2013 girls and women from all levels of soccer competition.  Every photo includes a quote with the subject\u2019s first name and age.  Professional soccer players featured are given a short bio at the back.<\/p>\n<p>The book is organized into ten chapters with ten \u201cRules,\u201d things like \u201cKeep Your Head Up\u201d and \u201cThe Team Is the Thing.\u201d  The first page of the chapter has a short inspirational text with lessons from playing soccer.  The rest is all quotes and photos.<\/p>\n<p>This is another astonishingly beautiful book to look through.  Almost made me wish I played soccer!  This book would be a wonderful gift for any girl who plays soccer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katetparker.com\/\">katetparker.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.workman.com\/\">workman.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1523511362\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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\/play_like_a_girl.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/play_like_a_girl.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>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but 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<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Like a Girl Life Lessons from the Soccer Field by Kate T. Parker Workman Publishing, 2020. 204 pages. Review written October 31, 2020, from a library book Play Like a Girl is another book packed with wonderful action shots of people from the author of Strong Is the New Pretty and The Heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,11,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38589","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=38589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39653,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38589\/revisions\/39653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}