EDGE - Dream to Win: Hope Powell - Softcover

Apps, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749682353 ISBN 13: 9780749682354

Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2008

Synopsis

Ever had a dream -- a dream to win?
Hope had a dream -- to play in, and manage, the England women's football team.
This is the story of Hope's early years and her break through into world-class women's football.

About this title

Book Description:

An inspirational set of biographies focusing on the skill and determination needed to break through into the world of top-class sport.

About the Author:

Roy Apps is the author of more than fifty children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. He is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts.
His novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical.
Roy writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang.
Roy visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head . He runs Writing Projects for all ages and over the last few years has helped young and new writers make books, stage plays, films, performance poetry and most recently, an opera.

About this edition

• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0749682353
• ISBN 13: 9780749682354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: King Chris