Johnny Ball: Accidental Football Genius
Celebrate the World Cup with the hilarious illustrated football series by the author of The Football GOAT about a school boy accidentally becoming a football manager - perfect for 6, 7, 8, 9
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Walker
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Ultimate Football Heroes, Unbelievable Football and The Football GOAT - and winner of the Children's Sports Book of the Year. A perfect illustrated laugh-out-loud read for football-mad kids who love school, silliness and pranks.
"Funny and entertaining. Perfect for fans of Ultimate Football Heroes." Tom Palmer
Johnny Ball is nine years old and LOVES football. He loves reading about it, talking about it and watching it - he might even be a FOOTBALL GENIUS!
The Tissbury Primary School team are getting ready for the super-huge Under-11s County Cup. Their clueless coach, Mr Mann, has a special role for Johnny: ASSISTANT MANAGER! With only Grandpa George’s old scarf, a notebook and his brilliant football brain, can Johnny lead the Tissbury Primary team all the way to County Cup glory?
*Laugh your way through the whole series!*
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Johnny Ball: International Football Genius
Johnny Ball: Professional Football Genius
Creators
Matt Oldfield loves football. He loves playing football, watching football, reading about football, but most of all, he loves writing about football. With his brother, Tom, he writes the bestselling Ultimate Football Heroes series of playground-to-pitch biographies. He is the co-author of The Football GOAT series, where players such as Messi and Ronaldo go head-to-head in a battle of stats, stories and facts. He has also worked with Lioness Beth Mead on her children’s book. He has won the Children’s Sports Book of the Year Award twice as well as being shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Award.
Tim Wesson draws for both children and adults. He illustrates for France magazine every month and has also illustrated for other clients including Habitat, SWATCH, Paperchase, BBC, Peagreen and many others.
Reviews
This is the first part of a new series by Matt Oldfield, and is written with great style and humour. The illustrations throughout the book by Tim Wesson complement the story really well.
The School Librarian
Please read some lovely reviews from Toppsta.com below: “It was a fantastic book and it blew my mind. Note from parent: my son absolutely loved this book and didn’t want it to end. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it to him.” “This book is fantastic for key stage 2. My key worker group loved it! They all listened intently as I read it aloud. Johnny Ball is a great character that we could all identify with and the story is really well written with great illustrations and a super storyline. I’m going to read it to my 6 year old now too. I would definitely buy more Johnny Ball books!” “I’m going to dress up like Johnny Ball for World Book Day next year!” “Alexander loves this book, it could have been written about him as his whole world at the moment is Football, just like the main character Johnny Ball. He talks about it non-stop, watches it, reads about it so this book is right up his street, he found it extremely entertaining. A fabulous book. Very good illustrations all in black and white.”
Toppsta.com
This is a delightful story that will be perfect not just for football fans but also for those who want a funny and quirky feel–good read for age 8+.
The English Association
