Tejan's Magic Soccer Ball. This item is unavailable.Tejan's Magic Soccer Ball

Children aged four to seven are delighted by Ken Luber's Tejan's Magic Soccer Ball picture book. Yosephine Djohan’s watercolor illustrations spark the imagination of parents and young readers and take us on an unexpected adventure.

A terrible windstorm causes seven-year-old Tejan to search for his old, raggedy soccer ball. He asks his best friend Aminata to help him. Where will their adventure lead them? They travel in a boat to a mysterious island and meet an older man who tells them about the Golden Soccer Temple of Ten Thousand Steps, filled with jeweled soccer balls. Will Tejan and Aminata find the temple? If they do, how will they climb the ten thousand steps? Who is the mysterious Grand Soccer Master, and will he help them find the ball?

Prepare to be dazzled by this charming adventure story with a powerful message of friendship, determination, and the importance of remaining faithful to what is closest to one's heart.

Ken Luber attended the renowned Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa after graduating from Ripon College. In his early years, he traveled worldwide, mostly hitchhiking and studying world cultures. Born in Wisconsin, Ken worked as a house painter, pizza maker, book salesman, door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, public relations writer, telemarketer, and ESL teacher. He has a son and daughter and lives with his artist-writer wife, Kathleen, in Southern California.