Let's Play Football! by Ben Lerwill - ISBN: 9781803380384
Paperback
Football: A game for everyone, uniting the world in simple joy.

Let's Play Football!

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  • Paperback

    32 pages

  • Release Date

    7 February 2023

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Summary

This lyrical non-fiction picture book celebrates the simple joys of football, whatever your background or ability. Rather than focusing on rules, skills, superstars, big clubs and record-breaking feats, this uplifting book for young children celebrates the planet’s best-loved sport and shows how the world’s most accessible game - where the only equipment needed is something that rolls - has evolved into a force for unity, and a sport for absolutely everyone. Spreads cover how football can be …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781803380384
ISBN-10:1803380381
Author:Ben Lerwill, Marina Ruiz
Publisher:Hachette Children's Group
Imprint:Welbeck Children's Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:32
Release Date:7 February 2023
Weight:189g
Dimensions:254mm x 248mm x 6mm
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Critics Review

‘Lerwill and Ruiz’s ode to the Beautiful Game offers a portrait of the sport as one that unites … The picture that emerges of soccer’s universality sings as it inspires’ * Publishers Weekly *

About The Author

Ben Lerwill

Ben Lerwill is a multi-award-winning travel writer who has written for publications and websites including national newspapers, Rough Guides, National Geographic Traveller, and many more. His children’s books include Wildlives (Nosy Crow, 2019), One World, Many Colours (words&pictures, 2020), Climate Rebels and Wild Cities (both Puffin, 2020) and Let’s Play Outside! (Welbeck Editions, 2022). He lives with his family in Oxford.

Marina Ruiz studied Fine Arts in Madrid and worked as a freelance illustrator before deciding to move to the UK, where she graduated from Cambridge School of Art with a Distinction in an MA in Children’s Book Illustration. Marina enjoys working with lyrical, more abstract narratives, combining images and text to express personal thoughts and emotions. She loves printmaking, and always tries to bring those magic textures and colour overlaps into her illustration work. Marina has also illustrated Let’s Go Outside! for Welbeck Editions. Originally from Spain, Marina is now based in Cambridge, UK.

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