Red Dog, Blue Fly: Football Poems (Picture Puffin)

32 pp. Pub: 9/95.Fourteen poems celebrate the quarterback, the coach, the touchdown, the tackle, even the running back who is a girl and the leg broken in victory. Bright, action-filled watercolors illustrate the field of glory and the players who dream of the hall of fame. "Each verse is a gem of sight, sound, or emotion."--Booklist.