Let's Play Football!

Description

This lyrical non-fiction picture book celebrates the simple joys of football, whatever your background or ability. Rather than focusing on rules, skills, superstars, big clubs and record-breaking feats, this uplifting book for young children celebrates the planet's best-loved sport and shows how the world's most accessible game - where the only equipment needed is something that rolls - has evolved into a force for unity, and a sport for absolutely everyone. Spreads cover how football can be played by all ages, genders, and abilities, whatever your racial, cultural or economic background, and whether you're in a state-of-the-art stadium or just a simple patch of scrubland.

Ben Lerwill is a multi-award-winning travel writer who has written for publications and websites including national newspapers,Rough Guides,National Geographic Traveller, and many more. His children's books includeWildlives (Nosy Crow, 2019),One World, Many Colours (words&pictures, 2020),Climate Rebels andWild Cities (both Puffin, 2020) andLet's Play Outside! (Welbeck Editions, 2022). He lives with his family in Oxford.Marina Ruiz studied Fine Arts in Madrid and worked as a freelance illustrator before deciding to move to the UK, where she graduated from Cambridge School of Art with a Distinction in an MA in Children's Book Illustration. Marina enjoys working with lyrical, more abstract narratives, combining images and text to express personal thoughts and emotions. She loves printmaking, and always tries to bring those magic textures and colour overlaps into her illustration work. Marina has also illustratedLet's Go Outside! for Welbeck Editions. Originally from Spain, Marina is now based in Cambridge, UK.