It’s Baseball Season!

The Thing Lenny Loves Most about Baseball written by Andrew Larsen

Lenny loves baseball. And not just playing baseball — he loves reading about it, too. Lenny thinks the more he knows, the better he’ll play … and he needs all the help he can get! But it’s not until he comes across some interesting information in his Big Book of Baseball Facts — Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, two of the best hitters in baseball history, failed most of the time! — that Lenny realizes his odds are pretty good! With renewed determination and lots of practice with his dad, Lenny sets out to play his very best. He knows he can be great some of the time. And maybe that will be good enough. That’s the thing Lenny loves most about baseball.

Bonaparte Plays Ball written by Margery Cuyler

Bonaparte the skeleton and his team, the Little Monsters, face the Mighty Aliens in a monster version of the World Series.

Balletball written by Erin Dionne

Nina loves ballet, not sports, so when her mother signs her up to play baseball she sulks until the coach explains how baseball and ballet can go together–and when a timely plié in the outfield saves the game she realizes that “balletball” is really not so bad after all.

Three Squeezes written by Jason Pratt

Follow a father and his son from babyhood to baseball games to graduation and beyond in this loving saga about the unbreakable bond between generations. A perfect gift, Three Squeezes is a tender, rhyming picture book that is an ode to the love between parent and child, no matter how old the child (or) parent is.

Home Base: a mother-daughter story written by Nikki Tate

In interwoven narratives, a young girl and her mother support one another as one tries out for the baseball team and the other interviews for a bricklaying job, then celebrate their success together.

Nonfiction

Baseball Science written by James Bow

Pitchers put their entire bodies into their pitches, and batters hit balls that fly toward them at 100 miles per hour. Find out how pitchers throw curveballs, learn about the training techniques and nutritional requirements of professional players, and much, much more.

Dice Baseball Game: https://dayswithgrey.com/dice-baseball-game/

Baseball themed learning activities: https://emilyslittleloves.com/summer-learning-at-home-week-2/

Baseball themed learning activities: https://daisiesanddoodles.com/baseball-themed-activities-for-kids/