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Witt, Alexa

It's Great to Skate!: An Easy Guide to In-Line Skating

32 pp. | Simon | May, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83109-9 $$15.00

(4) K-3 Ready-to-Read series. Illustrated by Nate Evans. This is a simple, humorous, easy-to-read mixture of cautionary warnings, advice, and encouragement on the joys and hazards of in-line skating. The cartoonlike illustrations show skaters gearing up, learning to balance and stop before learning how to go, and finally getting to "glide forward." The instructional text is straightforward, but it devolves into clunky rhyming verse at the end.

Reviewer: Jack Forman