Books with Football

One of the World Book Day ideas was to send the child into school wearing a Football Kit.

Below are some books that have football as the theme.

Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend (Francesca Simon) 6upwards


Girls FC (Helena Pielichaty) 8upwards

--Do Goalkeepers Wear Tiaras? Can Ponies Take Penalties? Are All Brothers Foul? Is An Own Goal Bad? Who Ate All The Pies? What's Ukrainian For Football? So What If I Hog The Ball? Can't I Just Kick It? We're The Dream Team, Right? Do Shinpads Come in Pink? Here We Go!

Jamie Johnson (series) (Dan Freedman) 8upwards
--The Kick Off, Shoot to Win, Golden Goal, Man of the Match, World Class, Final Whistle

Football Detective series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards

--Foul Play, Dead Ball, OffSide, Killer Pass, Own Goal

Football Academy Series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards
--Real Thing, Reading the Game, Captain Fantastic, Free Kick, Boys United, Striking Out

The Squad Series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards
-- Black Op, White Fear

The Bare Bum Gang and the Football Face-Off (Anthony McGowan and Frances Castle) 6upwards

Football Stories (Rob Childs) 6upwards

--Keeper's Ball, Strike

Football 3-in-1 books (Rob Childs) 6upwards

--Big Football Collection, Big Football Frenzy, Big Football Treble

County Cup series (Rob Childs) 6upwards

--Cup Favourites, (the rest of the series is OP)

 

Hot Shot Harry (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Zero to Hero (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Black and White (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Great Catesby Village School Series (Rob Childs) 6upwards 

-- Great Team Omnibus

Moving the Goalposts (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Football Mad (collection) 8upwards
4 books in 1 volume,Mark's Dream Team (Alan MacDonald), Nice One, Sam! (John Goodwin), There's Only One Danny Ogle (Helena Pielichaty) and The Worst Team In The World (Alan MacDonald).

The Number 7 Shirt (Alan Gibbons) - Barrington Stoke

TJ and the Hat-Trick, TJ and the Penalty (Theo Walcott) 8upwards

Football Fever (Sophie Smiley) 6upwards

Paul Faustino Series (Mal Peet) 10upwards

--Keeper, The Penalty

Goal (Robert Rigby) 10upwards

--Goal, Goal 2: Living the Dream,  Goal 3: Glory Days

Tigers series (Janet Burchett) 8upwards

--Ghost Goalie, Ghost Sriker, Save the Pitch, Tigers on Television, Cup Final

Dino FC (Keith Brumpton) 6upwards

-- Terror on the Training Ground, the Missing Fans, The Great Kit Catastrophe, The Vanishing Goalie, Transfer Trouble, The Unlucky Striker  

Stat Man (Alan Durant) - Barrington Stoke

Bend it like Beckham - Narinder Dharmi 10upwards

Oshie (Jon Blake) (also useful for special needs - Oshie has Cerebral Palsy) 6upwards

Total Football - Some you Win (Alan Gibbons) 10upwards

Super Soccer Boy series (Judy Brown) 6upwards

Striker Boy (Jonny Zucker) 8upwards

Strikers series (David Ross) 10upwards

--Young Blood, Big Deal, Bad Boys

Dream On (Bali Rai) - Barrington Stoke

The Football Ghosts (Malachy Doyle) - Red Bananas (learning to read)

Olympia on the Ball (Shoo Rayner) 6upwards

Billy the Kid (Michael Morpurgo) 5upwards

The Fib (Neal Layton) 8upwards

Soccer Squad (Bali Rai) 8upwards

--Starting Eleven, Missing,

Stanley Bagshaw and the Short-Sighted Football Trainer (Bob Wilson) picturebook