A young boy loves to play with all kinds of balls.

Can you catch a ball? What else can you do with a ball? There are lots of different kinds of balls. What games can we play with balls? What do you like to do with a ball?

Among amber-lit paintings, a writer and baseball enthusiast transport readers to the field of dreams with intriguing stories, facts, quotations, and stats about baseball's inspiring legacy. Janssen recalls baseball's legends and personal memories with keen detail and tender humor. This tribute is a gift that scores a smile and a special place among treasured baseball possessions.

Blessing and his friends have never heard of baseball in South Africa. The giraffes, wildebeests, ostriches, and all their animal friends gather around to hear about this new thing. Coach, an ole’ country boy from Texas, is ready to teach them how to play. He shows them how to throw and catch the ball, to swing a bat, and to understand the rules. The animals have so much fun, and baseball is so popular among the animals it eventually becomes a weekend sport in the surrounding areas. But most of all, playing baseball taught them unity and sportsmanship. They all began to love one another for their own unique gifts and talents.

Javier loves playing baseball. He wants to prove to everyone that he's a great pitcher. But his nerves get the best of him. With help from an alien friend, will Javier have the chance to run the bases, or will he be stuck in the dugout? This graphic novel includes educational sidebars such as a quick history of baseball, a social emotional tie-in, and a pro athlete biography. Backmatter includes an activity page and character information.

In this story, Katie the squirrel and Caroline the lemur are together for the first time, playing at the park. Katie finds a treasure while playing in the sand box, it turns out to be a nice, shiny rubber ball that someone left at the park. Katie and Caroline both agree to take it back to the road in front of their home and play with it. They think it's safe because the road is supposed to be blocked from traffic. But little do they realize that Reginald is around and plans to play a trick on them. He removes the barriers that were blocking the road, so cars can come back through again. It takes Katie and Caroline completely by surprise! Will they be OK? Or will Reginald be sorry he pulled that prank on them? Will they find out it was Reginald who does it? What do they do to him when they do find out? Look and see what happens in the end.

Like Chopin, Gillock wrote 24 preludes featuring all major and minor keys. The newly engraved 50th anniversary edition contains the composer's original notes, as well as a CD recording performed by Henry Doskey, who studied piano with Gillock while the Lyric Preludes were being written in the late 1950s. Friends for more than 35 years, Gillock designated Doskey as the "authoritative interpreter, and judge of authenticity of stylistic treatment" of his music. 36 pages.

Barley's friend Mrs. Green has a big problem on her hands. The field beside her house has become overgrown and unusable and she doesn't know what to do with it. Fortunately for her, Barley is up for the challenge! With the help of his friends and a mysterious new character, Barley will learn the value of investing in the community as they all work together to bring his dream to life.

A baseball tries to talk a young boy into going outside to play by describing the throwing, catching, and hitting they can do together. 10,000 first printing.

Miranda is a bright, attractive woman with an important government job, a nice home, and a prominent lawyer husband. Her fraternal twin sister, Jessica, is a sportswriter who has spent years sacrificing her social life and conventional career prospects to establish a magazine. Jessicas publication has finally caught on after she receives renown for an article she writes about local baseball star Manny Chavez and his perilous journey back to his native Cuba to retrieve his abducted son. Jessica, now engaged to Manny, invites Miranda, her husband, and their parents to join her in a luxury suite to watch the hometown Washington Filibusters take on their archrivals, the Florida Keys, in a championship game. As they are wined and dined by the team owner, Miranda envies her sisters seemingly perfect life and faces the reality that her own is a facade. But when the forces of revenge and corporate greed catch up to the perfect couple and blow their world apart, Miranda is suddenly thrust into a world of international politics. Lets Play Ball dramatizes the struggles of two ambitious sisters against the backdrops of immigration, global conflict, and the nations pastime.