Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood - Hardcover

Chambers, Veronica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786805129 ISBN 13: 9780786805129

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2002

Synopsis

This colorful, vibrant treasury is the ultimate tribute to the unique sport and pastime of double Dutch. Written and compiled by celebrated author and journalist Veronica Chambers, Double Dutch is filled with her own personal memories of girlhood and jumping rope, along with poems, interviews, songs, history, quotes, rhymes, and photographs. At the heart of Double Dutch, though, is a celebration, not just of a sport, but of sisterhood—after all, it takes a few friends to make that rope really swing and those feet jump for joy

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From Booklist

Gr. 4-8. Here's a book for girls that will make them jump for joy! It's a hodgepodge celebration of Double Dutch, the "queen of jump rope," which over the years has become a magnificent team game. Double Dutch is quite a sight to see. It's not like sissy old jump rope. It's the awesome WACK! WACK! WACK! of double ropes, the amazing jumping of the girls, and the familiar rhyme-calls used to keep the cadence. Chambers offers a miscellany of Double Dutch history, interviews, great photos, rhymes, poems, and stories, including how a black female student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute created her childhood dream: the automatic Double-Dutch Machine. There's also a section on Japanese teams, who now come to the contests--and often win. Display this with Sharon Draper's recent novel, Double Dutch [BKL S 1 02], for immediate response. Jean Franklin
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From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6-A book that is as snappy and fresh as its subject. Chambers introduces readers to the world of jump roping through personal reminiscences, wonderful action photos, and factual narratives. The book looks like a vibrant collage; a clean typeface is interspersed with pictures and inserts of the rhymes themselves. From it, readers learn not only the history of double Dutch (jumping between two twirling ropes dates back to the ancient civilizations in Phoenicia, Egypt, and China) and its current state, but also experience some of the joy of jumping. Joanna Cole has compiled jump rhymes in Anna Banana (Morrow, 1989), but Chambers re-creates the vibrant context in which they live.
Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786805129
• ISBN 13: 9780786805129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72