cover image K is for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet

K is for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet

Brad Herzog. Sleeping Bear Press, $16.95 (37pp) ISBN 978-1-58536-130-4

What Z Is for Zamboni did for hockey, K Is for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet by Brad Herzog, illus. by Melanie Rose-Popp, does for soccer, explaining its rudiments from A as in ""Argentina to Australia,"" where the game is played, to Z for ""Zinedine Zidane, a French star named world's best, and athletes of all ages who play the game with zest."" (Sept.)