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If you've got or know a little one who loves the beautiful game, you've probably found yourself hunting out soccer books for kids. Books always make great gifts. They are fun, educational and easy to wrap, so they tick all the boxes of last-minute buys for a child's birthday or treat. If the child in question loves soccer, the gift will be even better if you get them a book that also relates to that passion. Soccer books for kids tend to fall into the two broad categories: instructional or tactical books and story books. Practical tips The instructional books...

Manuel Negrete's spectacular strike for Mexico against Bulgaria in 1986 has been voted the Greatest World Cup Goal of all time. We know from experience that picking even a selection of the greatest World Cup goals is tricky, let alone narrowing it down to a single strike. The official FIFA World Cup Facebook page has put the matter to a public vote. After a knockout competition in which two great goals were pitted against each other in a vote, Negrete's spectacular mid-air volley was named the Greatest World Cup Goal ever. It saw off competition from Diego Maradona's mazy solo goal for Argentina...

Football books could provide your reading-averse child with the entry route they need to the written word. If your little one would rather be kicking a ball outside, pretending to kick one on the FIFA video game, or talking about football than reading a book, you're definitely not alone as a parent. It's a problem that particularly affects boys. A parliamentary commission investigating boys' reading standards found that three out of four (76%) UK schools are concerned about boys’ underachievement in reading and that, in 2011, an estimated 60,000 boys failed to reach the expected level in reading at age 11. Inquisitive minds There's...

Our illustrated football book World At Your Feet is now available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk. The book will be published on May 14, 2018, but you can place your order ahead of time to secure your copy. Our preference is for you to order directly from us on this website because that involves fewer fees for us to pay. But if you've got an Amazon voucher burning a hole in your back pocket, we can hardly blame you for spending it. What is World At Your Feet? World At Your Feet is the illustrated football book that takes 16 of...

by Rob Parker This is the tale of how I inadvertently ended up writing a children's football book... My life changed pretty dramatically just before Euro 2016 kicked off. We welcomed identical twin daughters into the world. Although they had to spend some time in the neonatal unit, having been born at 33 weeks, they fought really hard and unexpectedly got themselves strong enough to come home before the start of the tournament. The result was a lot of time over the next couple of weeks spent watching international football, while nursing tiny babies. Said babies seemed to take a...