Football School Season 1 - Where Football Explains the World

A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You will find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as history, geography, biology and maths. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football. Your coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach you how to score with your head.

About the author

Alex Bellos writes about maths and puzzles for the Guardian and is the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass, as well as two mathematical colouring books. He has also written Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, which was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year, and he ghost-wrote Pelé's bestselling autobiography.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Bellos, Bellos Alex, Ben Lyttleton, Lyttleton Ben
• Assisted by: Spike Gerrell (Illustration), Gerrell Spike (Illustration)
• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.05.2017
• EAN: 9781406373400
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-7340-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Sports & Recreation / Football, JUVENILE NONFICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons, General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General, Association football (Soccer), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Activity Books / General, Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage), Cartoons & comic strips (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / General