
All About Basketball
Author: Matt Doeden
Series: All About Sports
Narrator: Various Narrators
Unabridged: 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Capstone Press
Published: 08/10/2017
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Sports, Basketball

Author: Matt Doeden
Series: All About Sports
Narrator: Various Narrators
Unabridged: 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Capstone Press
Published: 08/10/2017
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Sports, Basketball
Matt Doeden began his career as a sports writer. Since then, he’s spent more than a decade writing and editing children’s nonfiction. Matt lives in Minnesota with his family.
I learned a basketball court is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide. It was invented in 1891 by James Naismith who had his students toss soccer balls into literal peach baskets to keep them busy during a snow storm.......more
Doeden is one of my favorite sports writers for young readers. Here he introduces the sport of basketball using short sentences, dynamic photographs and clear diagrams. "Defenders try to stop the other team from scoring. They knock the ball away. They steal passes." Throughout, Doeden uses nonfictio......more