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Myers, Christopher

H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination

32 pp. | Egmont | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60684-218-8 $18.99

(2) K-3 Two boys alternate describing the wildly impossible trick basketball shots they'll take--from the tops of buildings, after circumnavigating the globe, and from outer space. Myers's graceful illustrations employ his signature combination of gouache painting and cut-paper collages using photographs as backgrounds, but there is more painting than collage here, and consequently, more space for the imagination to take flight.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2013