Review by Booklist Review
In the traditional one-topic-per-spread format, Gifford covers organized (not playground) basketball's rules, drills, and strategies, along with shooting and dribbling techniques, offensive and defensive plays, and collegiate and professional associations in this country and abroad. The Olympics and Paralympics also earn occasional mentions. Though too skimpy and scattershot to be a systematic instruction manual or to give children who really don't know anything about the game much of a grounding, the text comes in easily digestible passages and captions around posed photos of young teenage players of both sexes (not in mixed teams, though) and diverse skin colors. A select gallery of renowned NBA, WNBA, or FIBA players are introduced in frequent thumbnail glimpses throughout as well as on several closing spreads. Young browsers with a casual interest in the game may pick up a few tips plus, from the illustrations, at least a notion that it's played internationally and by women as well as men.--Peters, John Copyright 2010 Booklist
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