Genre - Realistic Fiction Audience - Intermediate & PrimaryQuote - "As I approach the court, somewhere over New Jersey, I'll Raise back, open my mouth, dunk the ball through the baseket there, with my tongue!" (p 19)This book is full of quotes that allow students to create fantastic mental pictures. While the illustrations in this book are fantastic, I would read this book to students without the pictures and have them create their own. I chose this particular quote becuase of the silly nature o...

2013 CSKing Illustrator Honor2015 Odyssey Award WinnerThis audio is excellent!!!! 4-star rating for the story and illustrations though.

A basketball court + a ball + two kids = the perfect sum to play horse! When two boys meet at the basketball court, they immediately invite one another to play horse or ghost. It’s the game where one person takes a shot and then the other person has to try to match the shot exactly. It starts out simply enough with a layup with your eyes closed, but watch where this game goes! Filled with a banter that challenges one another to seek an even wilder idea, the two boys quickly start to talk about s...

Audience: PrimaryGenre: FantasyQuote: "I'm going to stand here, at half-court, with my back to the hoop and I'm going to skyhook this ball clear across the court into that basket, with my eyes closed, standing on one foot, over my left shoulder." (p. 7)The reason that I chose this quote is because it is very descriptive about how the boy will shoot the basketball into the basketball hoop, and I immediately have a picture in my head of what he is doing. In this book, the boy is playing a basketba...

This book was a fun basketball game that goes by the name of H.O.R.S.E. there were two characters a boy and girl. It started off with the girl asking the boy if he wanted to play Horse with her he agreed but although it was the same he mentioned that its called "Ghost" bach where he's from. The girl said ill start by doing a layup with my eyes closed and the boy mentioned how easy that would be, so from there on they started going back in forth of what they'll do instead, they were saying unreal...

Two boys go outside to play H.O.R.S.E, a basketball game where you make up crazy shots and see if other people can do them too. If they can't, they get a letter added to their score. These boys start to invent absolutely crazy shots, such as off of a 437 story building or into outer space. Clearly these things can't really be done, but they go to town on imagining new tricks and claiming that they're capable of doing them. This is a fun, competitive book which many kids can probably relate to.I

This dialogue driven book is full of imagination and playfulness. It feels just like overhearing two boys mess around on the basketball court. The premise is just as uncluttered as the illustrations.

Loved this one! Christopher Myers author's note reminded me of aspects of my youth. Playing ball with my friends, imagining the possibilities of a game we loved and creating dreams we hoped to live out on and off the court.

Okay, if at all possible, find the audio production of this book to go along with your reading. While I normally don't bother with picture books, since the time it would take me to just get the thing loaded and ready would far surpass the time to just READ the book, this production definitely earned its Odyssey Award, given for best audiobook of the year. Christopher Myers reads both sides of the game of HORSE, and manages to keep them fairly separate, despite only having one voice, himself. But...

Why This Book: This title will add breadth to the collection by offering an engaging story about basketball! There are a number of students who would be excited to find a book about their favorite sport, and right now there are few books about sports and no basketball stories available.Genre: fiction, fantasyTheme/KW: basketball, imagination, friendshipQuality: The story incorporates a friendly competition between friends, but it is good children's literature because it explores their friendship...

H.O.R.S.E: A Game of Basketball and Imagination written and illustrated by Christopher Myers was a fun read! I chose this story from the recommended section of our course textbook, as I was not familiar with this picture book or author. In this story, two unnamed teens challenge each other to a game of H.O.R.S.E. The boys first discuss the rules, comparing it to the game ‘Ghost’. After the first boy describes his epic shot, “layup with my eyes closed”, the second boy teases his easy shot. He cou...

Loved the trash talking these two friends do while playing HORSE. Reminded me of some great Michael Jordan-Larry Bird McDonalds commercials from back in the day!

One sunny day on a city basketball court, one young man challenges another to a game of H.O.R.S.E. as they debate who will take the first shot, the game turns from basketball shots to who can imagine the most fantastically spectacular one. From the court they soar to the top of tall buildings in a single bound, then through the stratosphere, around the globe, and then around the solar system to land with a tongue dunk.Myers’s brightly colored paint and collage illustrations for his tale of imagi...

H.O.R.S.E. Audience: After reading this book I think it would best fit grades 1-4. This book is very fun and has a subject that would fit great with students this age. Along with the basketball game it gives a great story with imagination and friends. Appeal: The story has a great basketball topic and incorporates a lesson about friends and their imagination. It’s a type of story that will appeal to all kids because its just so fun to think out of the box. The kids will like to hear what comes n...

I probably wouldn't have liked this book if I had read it but we listened to the audio and the reader is also the author who puts so much into the book. I especially liked the author notes that he read at the end.

K-2Narrative/Picture BookThis is the fun, quirky, and colorful tale of how two young boys increasingly "one-up" each other in sophisticate ways while playing an inspiring and imaginative game of H.O.R.S.E.I think this read out loud would be a great way to open kids up to the concept of creative writing, discussing what is "possible", "impossible", and if it matters if a story is real or fabricated. Following the reading, student's could turn to a neighbor and share a free throw they would make.

I met author/illustrator/very-tall-person Christopher Myers this last spring in New York at a breakfast event put on by Egmont USA. Myers is a talented artist AND an entertaining conversationalist, and he kept our entire table amused with basketball stories. It was special to hear straight from the author about his inspiration for his Coretta Scott King Honor book. Afterward he was kind enough to personalize a copy of H.O.R.S.E. for me. It was an early meeting, so I can’t say I was my most spark...

H.O.R.S.E. is a multicultural book that won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award in 2013. I found this title on NLU's multicultural list and liked the summary of it. The illustrations are beautiful and flow from page to page. They bring life to the words on the page as well. I rated this book a 1/5 because there wasn't much to it. I was disappointed with the content and was expecting more from it. This book is about two boys playing a game of HORSE. One boy calls it HORSE and the other one c...

Christopher Myers plays with the relationship between illustration and text, placing the text in a way so that it moves in the way the ball might move. For example, the text says "am I'm going to skyhook this ball clear across the court into that basket" and the lines are arranged in an arc from the boy to the basketball hoop. Similarly, his friend says, "I'm going to bounce the ball off that water fountain, off the third cloud (the one that's shaped like a Cadillac." The text starts arcing down...

LOVE this. Sounds just like my family and I playing ANYTHING, including horse and ghost, or whatever we were calling it in the moment. Such a great example of a typical conversation between two young friends (or even some old ones, let's be honest-we can still be silly). Working together you can often come up with a much better story than alone.