My boys’ favorite thing to do after school is to shoot hoops. So it’s no surprise that they love to read books about kids playing basketball. We found Matt Christopher books when my oldest son was in 1st grade and he immediately fell in love with them.
Over the past 4 years I have really built up our collection of Matt Christopher books. He writes about several different sports, but my boys’ favorites are the basketball and football stories.
Recently we’ve found a few new series that the boys love so I wanted to share them.
Amar’e Stoudemire (or a ghost writer) has started this series of stories about Amar’e growing up. My 5th grader is desperate to be able to dunk in 6th grade just like Amar’e did in the book. Good luck with that, Blake!
I also found this Super Hoops series by Hank Herman that Clark, my 4th grader, thinks is better than sugar cereal. My library doesn’t even have the whole series, so we’ll have to start scouting around for them at Goodwill.
Do your kids like to read sports books? Let me know what other good books are out there.