Start the countdown for the greatest sporting event on the planet - the Olympic and Paralympic games! This book will inspire children about the London 2012 Games - the sports, the athletes, the preparations - building excitement in the run up to the Games themselves. Packed with the low-down on Olympic sports and vital must-know facts - plus fun write-in activities, it's a winner.

 

This book was recognised by the Blue Peter Book Of the Year Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Welbeck Publishing Group .

Simon Hart has been a sports journalist for more than 20 years and has reported from five Summer Olympic Games.

This book has the following chapters: The Official Countdown to the London 2012 Games! is packed with essential information on Olympic and Paralympic sports, plus facts, records, profiles of sports superstars, medals and more! Join the official 2012 Games mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, as they discover each sport and follow them on the timeline from the very first Olympic Games in ancient Greece all the way through to the celebrations and the lighting of the flame to open the London 2012 Games.