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For the Love of Basketball

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By Frederick C. Klein, Illustrated by Mark W. Anderson

For the Love of...

SPORTS & RECREATION

44 Pages, 11 x 11

Formats: EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF

EPUB, $11.99 (US $11.99) (EU $13.99) (CA $12.99) (AU $18.99)

ISBN 9781623685379

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Triumph Books (Dec 2010)

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Expressing the passion felt for basketball using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, thisÃ‚Â tribute to the sport explores the hardwood heroes in a fresh and fun way. Readers will enjoy fun facts about NBA superstars past and present, including LeBron, Kobe, Jordan, and Magic, seemingly doing the impossible on the court.

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Frederick C. Klein is a longtime writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he originated the "On Sports" column. He is a freelance writer andÃ‚Â the author of many books, includingÃ‚Â severalÃ‚Â other entriesÃ‚Â in the For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark W. Anderson is an illustrator whose work has appeared on the back cover of National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Time and inside the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, Outside, and many other periodicals. He is the illustrator and designer ofÃ‚Â Triumph Books' popular For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Chicago.

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