The animal teams of The Cheetahs and The Rockets battle it out in this football game in rhyme. Who will win this whirling, twirling, rolling, bouncing football game? The two teams of animals - sloth, bulldog, penguin, goat and others - play their game in rhyme, in this book inspired by the amazing feet of Sandra Gilbert Brug's local school football team.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2003 by Simon & Schuster .

Sandra Gilbert Brug was for twenty years a teacher, director and advocate in the field of early childhood education, and she now works full-time as a poet and children's librarian. She lives with her family in Montana, US. Elisabeth Moseng was born and raised near Oslo, Norway, studied at the School of Communication Arts in Oslo, and received her BA from Kingston University, London. She shares an art studio with nine other illustrators in the centre of Oslo, where she now lives.