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"Everything about this book is positive and full of zest - and a passion for football infuses every page"
--Carousel, Anne Faundez
"Michael Foreman has a flair for turning a book into a special occasion." --Quentin Blake
"Michael Foreman has triumphed with the perfect picture book for football fans of all ages." --Publishing News
"Occasionally you come across a book that is clearly very special to its author. Wonder Goal is just such a book. This is not just for the boys; everyone will love it." --The Bookseller
"Everything about this book is positive and full of zest." --Carousel
Brilliantly capturing the thrill of scoring a winning goal whether at schoolboy or international level, this is a book for all aspiring footballers to dream over. Michael Foreman's stunning and atmospheric illustrations evoke football in general and the magic of the goal scoring moment in particular
-- Lovereading4kids
`This beguiling picture book has appeal across the age range as it is imbued with a complete love for `the beautiful game'!' --NATIONAL LITERACY GUIDE
--Carousel, Anne Faundez
"Michael Foreman has a flair for turning a book into a special occasion." --Quentin Blake
"Michael Foreman has triumphed with the perfect picture book for football fans of all ages." --Publishing News
"Occasionally you come across a book that is clearly very special to its author. Wonder Goal is just such a book. This is not just for the boys; everyone will love it." --The Bookseller
"Everything about this book is positive and full of zest." --Carousel
Brilliantly capturing the thrill of scoring a winning goal whether at schoolboy or international level, this is a book for all aspiring footballers to dream over. Michael Foreman's stunning and atmospheric illustrations evoke football in general and the magic of the goal scoring moment in particular
-- Lovereading4kids
`This beguiling picture book has appeal across the age range as it is imbued with a complete love for `the beautiful game'!' --NATIONAL LITERACY GUIDE
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Michael Foreman tackles the world's favourite sport in this paperback reissue of a picture book for football fans of all ages!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great book for boys aged 7 - 11 - I read it to my boys at school. Great read for this world cup year!
Requires the reader to use some imagination.
Requires the reader to use some imagination.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book has a dull storyline with no depth, the other boys tease the young boy but that is deemed as ok as he is the new boy and it will stop when he gets better at football. His dad is unreliable but watches his final goal. Really disappointed.
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3 1/2 Exciting Soccer Drama, But Slightly Confusing
30 Jun 2006
Format:Hardcover
With the Cup being played this year, Americans will once again renew their tenuous relationship with soccer. For some kids and adults, however, soccer is an enduring love, and they're just as enthusiastic--if not as rich in tradition, as their soccer-loving counterparts in other countries. Michael's Foreman's imaginative (both literally and figuratively) text and witty illustrations convey how children everywhere dream of attaining big goals (pun intended).
Foreman opens with a scene of a gigantic, dream-like soccer field, with hundreds playing on what looks like several square miles of turf. Our unnamed hero suffers a small practical joke from his teammates, but his on-field heroics quiet them until... he wakes up.
Or does he? It becomes somewhat confusing at this point, as Foreman overreaches in his blend of the past and the future, the longings of the boy and his father. The scenes seem to switch from dream to--perhaps the boy grown up?-- playing in a stadium in front of tens of thousands of international soccer fans. The story uses the cliche of the father too busy to see his son's big goal, except we are told that "his dad usually came to all the games." That doesn't seem so bad, but, after the boy shoots "the first goal of the Final" (either in his dream, or later as an adult, or with his real team in the present--I'm not sure), we're told, "And this time--this [italics added] this time, his dad was there to see it.
After he scores that tremendous goal ("The vast crowd erupted. He had hit another wonder goal!")in the huge stadium, we get an equally confusing statement: "Just like the goal he had scored all those years before on that freezing boyhood Sunday." This must refer to the "cold" day that opens the book; however, that soccer game is interrupted by a dream, or (more probably) an image of his father when he was a boy, and his father's similar soccer hopes and dreams.
OK, so maybe it doesn't matter that the text is somewhat confusing. Perhaps some would argue that the author masterfully switches point of view and timeframe. I think, however, that the cinematic shifts in time and narrator will confuse much of the book's intended audience. I like the range of emotions here, the context, the wit and intelligence, and the vivid, imaginative pictures, but a slightly simpler book may have been more effective.
Foreman opens with a scene of a gigantic, dream-like soccer field, with hundreds playing on what looks like several square miles of turf. Our unnamed hero suffers a small practical joke from his teammates, but his on-field heroics quiet them until... he wakes up.
Or does he? It becomes somewhat confusing at this point, as Foreman overreaches in his blend of the past and the future, the longings of the boy and his father. The scenes seem to switch from dream to--perhaps the boy grown up?-- playing in a stadium in front of tens of thousands of international soccer fans. The story uses the cliche of the father too busy to see his son's big goal, except we are told that "his dad usually came to all the games." That doesn't seem so bad, but, after the boy shoots "the first goal of the Final" (either in his dream, or later as an adult, or with his real team in the present--I'm not sure), we're told, "And this time--this [italics added] this time, his dad was there to see it.
After he scores that tremendous goal ("The vast crowd erupted. He had hit another wonder goal!")in the huge stadium, we get an equally confusing statement: "Just like the goal he had scored all those years before on that freezing boyhood Sunday." This must refer to the "cold" day that opens the book; however, that soccer game is interrupted by a dream, or (more probably) an image of his father when he was a boy, and his father's similar soccer hopes and dreams.
OK, so maybe it doesn't matter that the text is somewhat confusing. Perhaps some would argue that the author masterfully switches point of view and timeframe. I think, however, that the cinematic shifts in time and narrator will confuse much of the book's intended audience. I like the range of emotions here, the context, the wit and intelligence, and the vivid, imaginative pictures, but a slightly simpler book may have been more effective.
Good for Introducing Big Goals
16 Aug 2006
Format:Hardcover
I agree with the reviewer who said the story was "confusing." I intend to use it as a read-aloud to introduce my class' big goals for the year, as I am a 5th grade teacher in New York. However, upon delving into the story, I, too, could not figure out if the boy was really playing in the World Cup final or just dreaming about it. I did not get in which game he was actually scoring a goal. Of course, the point is that everyone can have big goals and dreams, and see them to reality if they persevere. Hopefully, I can elicit student reactions without getting bogged down with the text. I can probably spur on some interesting discussion among students as to what the author's intentions were. I would welcome others' suggestions on 5th grade level books to share or read independently.
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