A review by brucefarrar
H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination by Christopher Myers
5.0
One sunny day on a city basketball court, one young man challenges another to a game of H.O.R.S.E. as they debate who will take the first shot, the game turns from basketball shots to who can imagine the most fantastically spectacular one. From the court they soar to the top of tall buildings in a single bound, then through the stratosphere, around the globe, and then around the solar system to land with a tongue dunk.
Myers’s brightly colored paint and collage illustrations for his tale of imaginative bragging on the court that goes from urban to interplanetary in just 32 pages (including a cameo of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson) garnered him a Coretta Scott King illustrator honor in 2013. It has been boosted into a higher orbit by the recording of the books dialog with the author and producer Dion Graham voicing the two young rivals. The Live Oak Media disc that comes packaged with the book won the 2015 Odyssey Award for the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Myers’s brightly colored paint and collage illustrations for his tale of imaginative bragging on the court that goes from urban to interplanetary in just 32 pages (including a cameo of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson) garnered him a Coretta Scott King illustrator honor in 2013. It has been boosted into a higher orbit by the recording of the books dialog with the author and producer Dion Graham voicing the two young rivals. The Live Oak Media disc that comes packaged with the book won the 2015 Odyssey Award for the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.