In the book How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball by David Shannon it is always winter! Those poor characters! Boss Swaggert, a former baseball player outlaws baseball and sends The United States into everlasting winter. Young Georgie Radbourn goes on trial for shouting baseball sayings. He challenges Boss to a baseball game. If Georgie wins, baseball will no longer be outlawed. Will it also be the end of winter?
This is a great read aloud to share with your child. The plot and beautiful illustrations pull the reader deep into the story. Readers have a lot of background knowledge about baseball and about the four seasons. This background knowledge helps the reader make text-to self connections. The book also easily lends itself to making inferences. There are so many places in the story where the reader naturally makes predictions (or guesses) about what might happen next. An inference is really a prediction based on clues from the text merged with your background knowledge. It is also a great story to make text-to self connections because of the empathy felt for the characters.
Below are a few questions you may ask when sharing this story with your child.
1. Read the first page of text. Ask your child: Would you like it if it were always winter? How would our lives be different?
2. Read the second page of text. Ask your child: Why do you think Boss Swaggert's heart became mean? How would you feel if people called you names?
3. Read the fifth page of text. Ask your child: Does this sound like a place you would like to live? How would you feel about having go to work when you were nine?
4. Read the seventh page of text. Ask you child: Why do you think Georgie's neighbors are nervous?
5. Read the tenth page of text. Ask your child: Do you think Georgie will receive a fair trial? Why or why not.
6. Read the sixteenth page of text. Ask your child: Why do you think the sun comes out when Boss Swaggert strikes out?
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