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Summary: If you're looking for a bit of inspiration but not too much heavy deep reading, this should do the trick.Alexander keeps the stories short and to the point. If you just can't do a tomb, but you want a bit more meet to get you in the right frame of mind for being inspired for the day. If you read while having coffee, consider just doing a chapter out of this a day. It is choked full of great quotes from amazing athletes.P.2 Basketball was invented in 1891. I did not know that.p. 17 - Wil...
I really liked this book because it had a lot of good quotes and lessons about basketball and any sport in general. I have read Kwame Alexander books before and I love his basketball books. I recommend this book to whoever wants to read a basketball book with good lessons.
I thought it was a relly great book and it taught me a lot of incouraging quotes. I would recomend this to people that are down on theselves for doig somthing wrong,expecally in basketball.
I can relate with the character because we're both trash at basketball and never get passed to by teammates. But the book itself was really deep, and inspiring. Would definitely recommend to basketball maniacs (won't say who).
This. Book. Was. AMAZING!! It was definitely a quick read but it had a fabulous message. It has small memoirs inside that walk about different pro athletes that have gone through some difficult lives. It gives you uplifting quotes. I recommend this to only people that enjoy sports though because I fell otherwise you'd get tired with it or wouldn't understand some of it and get as great of a feeling and message out of it as people that like sports would.
Pretty good but not exactly what I expected
This book is packed full of inspiration. I loved it!
Filled with great poems and quotes and fabulous photographs and drawings. An inspirational and thoroughly enjoyable read.
“Mistakes r a Fact of Life, It is the Response 2 the Error that Counts” Nikki Giovanni
A basketball fans delight. This short book is chocked full of advice. Using basketball as a metaphor for life, the great ideas flow. Additionally, K. Alexander puts quotes from the greatest in sports throughout the book as a distinctive reference. Well written. Both thoughtful and brief. A all around good book for all but especially athletes. I highly recommend.
AMAZING! It's a really quick read for readers that need to feel inspired and/or motivated, either academically, socially, or even athletically. Kwame does a great job at retelling people's stories so young readers can understand and learn from it. The rules and quotes from well known athletes and artists are great reminders at what life is really about.
Kwame Alexander's The Playbook is a neat little book that offers teenagers rules for sports and for life. Most of them boil down to working hard and dealing with frustration. There are lots of famous passages from successful athletes. The inside cover is rippled to feel more like a basketball. My advice to a kid reading The Playbook would be to read it all at once and then to read a little bit of it everyday.
Reading this book I could picture all of the middle school students I wanted to hand it to, ones that would devour it in their rooms in one night, ones that would sneak-read it during class, ones that would jot down a few of the quotes that really struck them, ones that needed a lift or a push or some reassurance. It will grab the attention of sports fans, but non-sports fans will be enamored with it, too. Will also make an excellent gift for coaches and grads.
Rules for life. #3WordBookReviewKwame Alexander mixes personal stories, the stories of athletes, and inspirational quotes to outline 52 rules for a successful life.This will be great for reluctant readers: each double spread page contains a rule and an appropriate quote, and it is highly visual with illustrations, photographs and dynamic text. I will definitely be buying more copies for my school library!
I really enjoyed this book. It showed great lessons and really inspired me. It had different parts of the book and the part that really spoke to me was about Lebron James. It talked about how he struggled as a kid and didn't have a father. The fact that he didn't have a male mentor, it fueled him to work harder and never give up. Also, my favorite quote from this book was " You miss 100% of your shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky. This is a great book and I highly recommend it.
Loved it, and I'm not into sports, at all. However, it is so relevant to life, and especially overcoming failure.
Good message and I can picture students who will enjoy the sports connections. (I think Brody might like this one too.)
While reading this book, I really enjoyed reading all the different rules and saying's that can be related to sports, and life. I also enjoyed reading some of the stories from the author, Kwame Alexander's life, and other athletes such as Lebron and the Williams sisters. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Kwame Alexander's books and sports.
E ARC from Edelweiss Above the TreelineThis book is a collection of rules, quotes, and short snippets of biographical and autobiographical inspirational stories. It is well illustrated with photographs from Thai Neave as well as drawing and fun text that look like the cover at left. (I can't find the information for the book designer, but that person is the real start of this effort.) The stories are interesting enough, but this is one of those books that I'm not quite sure what to do with. It's...
It was amazing.
