LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Whether you love football, hate football, or are completely indifferent to it, this book will still have you rolling around on the touchline.
Campbell is a stand-up comic and knows all about timing and how to make his audience laugh. He has packed the book with football facts, true but surprising (and often very funny), as well as side-splitting football stories about the history and origins of the game, about its top players and other football-related things from club badges to playing rules and the World Cup.
Every page is guaranteed to grab the imagination and it’s the perfect thing for dipping into at half-time or while you’re waiting for a VAR decision. With brilliant black and white illustrations throughout by Rob Jones, it looks great too. For fans and non-believers alike, football has never been so funny.
Andrea Reece
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The Funny Life of Football Synopsis
A hilarious fact and fiction hybrid from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own.
Want to know why octopuses can't play football? And how to play the game across multiple dimensions? How about learning the real rules of how football is played, why Henry VIII banned it, plus where it came from and who the greatest players of all time are? Whether you love a game of table football, can't get enough of back-garden ball, only enjoy the game from your sofa or would sooner swim with sharks than play it, if you love to laugh - then this is the book for you! But be warned - this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between.
From comedian extraordinaire James Campbell, get ready to laugh your butt off to a silly book filled with funny stories, partly-true facts and hilarious pictures that will make you think twice about the game everyone thinks they know so well.
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9781526627995 |
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18th August 2022 |
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James Campbell |
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Rob Jones |
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Bloomsbury Childrens Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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Paperback |
| Pagination: |
239 pages |
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About James Campbell
Soon after discovering he could not be a duck James Campbell decided to make children laugh for a living. He now travels around primary schools and literary festivals, telling funny stories and encouraging children to write their own stuff.
James has been on the BBC1 show, Child of Our Time, and CBBC's Blue Peter, where he taught children how to craft their own jokes. Kids love him so much that he has his own Comedy4Kids show called The Funny Thing About... where he talks about this hilarious new book.
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