Nice One Smithy!
By (Author) Mr Paul May
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Corgi Childrens
15th February 2002
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 6mm
75g
A funny, lively story about football, friendship and the importance of playing as a team. "THEY'LL PULVERIZE US!" Fizz and her mates at Hillside Primary love playing football - but the school team's first match is against the Church Street gang (mean, nasty and horrible - and that's how they play their football too). That's when their teacher decides Smithy gets the job of goalkeeper - a position Smithy HATES. Now they've got to play against the roughest bunch ever, with a goalie who doesn't want to be there. Can Fizz and Smithy team up to beat the Church Street team
The pafce is brisk and there is enough humour to keep the reader entertained to the final whistle. Sheppard's roughly sketched, spindle-legged characters add to the humour * Books For Keeps *
Paul May is a teacher and keen footballer with two children. His first book for the Transworld lists, TROUBLEMAKERS, was shortlisted for the inaugural Branford Boase Award Author lives- Suffolk