When former Scottsbluff Star-Herald sports editor Bab Schaller approached WNCC women’s basketball coach Dave Harnish about collaberating with him on producing a children’s book about basketball, he jumped at the opportunity.Harnish contributed to “The Everything Kids’ Basketball Book,” released this month.
“At its core, basketball isn’t that hard,” Schaller and Harnish write in the book. “It’s about hustling on defense and offense, paying attention, taking good shots, and making good passes. If you can do all those things, you’re on you’re way to becoming a good basketball player.”
The book is an entertaining way for children to learn the sport and is filled with fun facts, stats, and stories about basketball stars past and present, the best offensive and defensive moves, up-to-date statistics and records of NBA teams, and fun games like “Around the World” and “H-O-R-S-E.”
The book contains mini-games such as connect the dots and matching.
The Everything© Series Books provide an enjoyable and easy way to learn. Other books in the series include digital photograhy, writing children’s books, and the Civil War, among others.
Schaller has written nearly 50 books on everything from covering Husker sports to profiling such sports personalities as Tom Osborne, Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner, and Denver Bronco Kenny Walker. Schaller worked for the Star-Herald in the 1990’s.
The book gives credit to Harnish for his contributions: “Dave Harnish is the head basketball coach at Western Nebraska Community College. His teams have won the Region IX Tournament five of the six years to advance to the national tournament, and have won at least 30 games in six of the last seven seasons. They have not lost more than nine games in a season since 1993. He lives in Scottsbluff, Neb.”
The book can be found online at any retailer, or ordered through Cooperfield Books at Monument Mall.
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