eBranch Blog

May 30, 2006

Take Me Out to the Ball Game...Kids Baseball Book List

This year's Summer Reading Program theme is Reading: The Sport of Champions. Our first booklist is for those of you who love peanuts and crackerjacks...Baseball/Softball. Step on up to the plate for picture books, easy readers, fiction, and nonfiction books.

Robert Burleigh. Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth
A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.

Bill Cosby. Hooray for the Dandelion Warriors
Little Bill and his teammates are excited to begin baseball practice, but they cannot agree on the team name.

Virginia Euwer Wolff. Bat 6
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

Michael E. Goodman. The History of the Houston Astros
Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that changed its name to the Astros in 1965 when it moved to the first indoor baseball stadium, the Astrodome.