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R is for Race

A Stock Car Alphabet

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Engines hum and hearts pound as cars hurtle around the track at 200 miles per hour. In R is for Race: A Stock Car Alphabet, readers will experience the track's sights and sounds as they learn the ins and outs of stock car racing, from its humble beginnings in 1895 to the fastest growing sport in America. Whether interested in the guys in the garage or the Daytona International Speedway, fans young and old will speed from A to Z as they are introduced to the people, places and memorable moments in stock car racing.As a freelance magazine writer, author Brad Herzog has earned three gold medals from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He has also written several sports titles for Sleeping Bear Press, including H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet. Brad lives with his family on California's Monterey Peninsula. Illustrator Jane Gilltrap Bready's motorsports paintings have been displayed in museums worldwide. She came by her love of cars naturally, as she was born into a family with racing ties. She and her family live in New Hampshire.
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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2006
      Gr. 3-5. Herzog's series of comprehensive alphabet books about sports for middle-graders--including " P Is for Putt: A Golf Alphabet " (2005)--grows with this title about auto racing that follows the same alphabet format. Each double-page spread uses a letter to introduce a wide variety of concepts, from the history of NASCAR and other races to engineering and equipment, rules of the road, and famous racers. The text works on multiple levels to draw in a wide age range. Each page includes a pair of rhyming couplets that will appeal to younger readers, while longer paragraphs delve into clearly stated specifics that will please fact-hungry middle-graders. The human figures and faces in Bready's paintings are sometimes stiffly rendered, but the scenes on the track deliver a palpable sense of the sport's excitement and speed. Try this with young reluctant readers. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2007
      Herzog shares interesting facts about popular drivers and famous racetracks in well-worded sidebars that are too sophisticated for the book's intended audience. The illustrations capture the sport's speed and the perspective of the driver, but they cannot compensate for the awkward rhythm and forced rhymes of the poems that make up the main text.

      (Copyright 2007 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:6.3
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:5

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