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Rimshots

Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms

Charles R. Smith

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English
Puffin
03 April 2000
The power, strength, and determination of the game of basketball are captured in striking photographs and sizzling stories, poems, and personal reflections. From frustration to humor, joy, and triumph, this streetwise look at a favorite American pastime conveys all the passion and excitement of the sport.
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Imprint:   Puffin
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 256mm,  Width: 256mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   156g
ISBN:   9780140566789
ISBN 10:   0140566783
Pages:   32
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 8 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  English as a second language ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Charles R. Smith has traveled the United States and abroad to take photos for the NBA, SLAM, and Sports Illustrated. He is also an award-winning children's author and poet, with more than 30 books to his credit. He's won a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for his photographic illustration of Langston Hughes's poem My People and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award for his Muhammad Ali biography, Twelve Rounds to Glory. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Reviews for Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms

"""Like the game, the poems are quick, energetic, and highly rhythmic, and the prose pieces, personal and passionate"". -- SLJ"


  • Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2000
  • Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Silver) 1999

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