It’s game day! In this action-packed picture book from Daria Peoples-Riley, the creator of the acclaimedThis Is It,a young basketball player gets ready for a neighborhood pickup game.
I Got Nextencourages hard work and determination and celebrates the imagination and the joy of basketball.Fans ofCrown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, by Derrick Barnes,will devour this exuberant book.
Time to play! Put your game face on, play to win. Fight, all the way to the end.
A young basketball player practices on the playground, preparing for an upcoming pickup game while his shadow urges him to play hard and leave his heart on the court. As the boy dribbles and weaves, shoots and scores, his shadow gives him the encouragement he needs to overcome pregame jitters and join the competition.
In the companion to her debut picture book
This Is It, author-illustrator Daria Peoples-Riley praises hard work, dedication, and the love of the game. With vibrant artwork and a lively, rhythmic text,
I Got Nextis an exceptional read-aloud. The perfect choice for fans of
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, by Derrick Barnes, and
Jabari Jumps,
by Gaia Cornwall.US
“Peoples-Riley’s art is witty and superb . . . The sharp-edged, mixed-gender group of playground kids . . . are a highly individual, deeply plausible collection. Use this to demonstrate how stories often have deeper meanings and to elicit discussion, but also just to revel in the city life made beautiful.” -Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books
“The inner-city neighborhood is lovingly portrayed, with soft watercolors creating swaths of concrete and sky, spare natural elements, and the black of the broken chain-link fence echoed in the black of the shadow that gets the boy psyched. A vibrant mural on the endpapers pays tribute to black leaders and community. Important, beautil£B
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