This book will help you learn how to find ideas and then find supporting evidence to write clearly about those ideas. It contains brainstorming and training activities to sharpen your writing skills. Tips and advice from news writers and examples from their own work will also help you.

This exciting sports almanac will tell kids everything they want and need to know about the previous year in sports. It includes major sports (basketball, baseball, football, hockey); "secondary sports" (golf, tennis, swimming, auto racing); and action sports (BMX, snowboarding, motocross, skateboarding). Illustrated with fabulous action photos, the book will also feature an all-new sixteen-page, fourcolour insert that contains photos of the year's most thrilling moments and memorable athletes.

Heavily illustrated with fabulous action photos, this sports almanac also features a 16-page, four-color insert that contains photos of the year's thrilling moments and memorable athletes. Full color.

Kenzie uses her super strength skill to learn snowboarding.

Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does solargely by recounting the careers of the sport’s Yoda—Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks—and its Luke Skywalker—Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport’s spikes, plateaus, and drops—including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else.

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These four board books illustrated by collage-artist Marthe Jocelyn are a unique tribute to the colors, textures, and patterns that make clothes a child’s favorite pastime. Ready for Winter displays a full wardrobe, introducing lovely words like turtleneck and galoshes, and allowing even the very young reader to be an expert on what should be worn next season.

The ultimate guide to the year in sports, the 2009 volume covers football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between, with essays by top Sports Illustrated writers, all-time stats and records, and ticketing information for top pro sports.