The "My Favorite Sport" series introduces children to diverse sports through engaging games, fascinating facts, and vibrant illustrations. Each book tells the story of a particular discipline—its history, rules, equipment, and team dynamics. The series inspires children to be active and embrace healthy lifestyles, showing that sports offer more than play: they build friendship, discipline, resilience, and confidence.
General Information
Age Group: 9+ years
Genres: Non-fiction - Sports & Recreation (JNF054000) - Health & Daily Living (JNF024000)
Structural Data: 20 average pages per book - 40 average words per page
Educational Characteristics
This series promotes children’s holistic development through sports education. It teaches teamwork importance, cultivates winning and losing gracefully, and emphasizes health value. Books explain sport rules in simple, engaging language while inspiring love for movement and confidence in physical abilities. Children learn that sports develop discipline, perseverance, and social skills while discovering diverse athletic activities that might become lifelong passions.
Sport Discovery
Discover different sports, their major competitions, famous teams, and champion athletes.Team Spirit & Collaboration
Learn to work together, trust teammates, and support others.Healthy Lifestyle
Understand how sports maintain health, energy, and physical well-being.Sportsmanship
Win gracefully, accept defeat with dignity, and respect all players.Discipline & Perseverance
Strengthen willpower, determination, and commitment to improvement.
Inside the Series
Why do swimmers need a cap, goggles, and a streamlined swimsuit? This book answers, then dives deeper. A friendly guide walks readers from the poolside rules to the science of why bodies float, then through every stroke: freestyle, backstroke, the energy-saving frog kick of breaststroke, and the demanding beauty of butterfly. It explores competitive swimming and Olympic pools, marvels at animals that outswim us, and leaves young readers itching to grab their gear and jump in.
From the English fields where football was born to the World Cup trophy lifted every four years, this book hands young readers the whole game. A friendly guide explains the gear, the positions, the offside rule, and what those yellow and red cards really mean, then walks the pitch from penalty kicks to futsal. It celebrates global legends like Pelé, and Armenia’s own glory: the magical Ararat 73 season and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The whistle blows. Ready?
It began with French monks slapping a ball with their bare palms. Centuries later, this book hands young readers the whole modern game: the racquet and the strange scoring (why is zero called “love”?), the strokes from forehand to smash, the four Grand Slams, and giants like Djokovic, Federer, and Serena Williams. It lingers on Armenian stars too, from Andre Agassi to David Nalbandian. More than rules, it’s a lesson in focus, fair play, and never giving up.
Invented in 1891 by a teacher who needed an indoor winter game, basketball is now played everywhere a hoop hangs. This book gives young readers the essentials: dribbling, the five positions, how points add up to one, two, or three, and the fouls a referee watches for. It salutes legends like Jordan and LeBron, then comes home to the diaspora courts, from Beirut to Los Angeles, where Homenetmen and AGBU teams unite Armenian youth. Grab a ball.
The word comes from the Greek for “naked,” which is how ancient athletes once trained. This book carries young readers from there into the modern sport: the apparatus, the core skills every gymnast builds, the famous perfect 10, and how judges score daring against form. It honors legends like Nadia Comăneci and Simone Biles, and Armenia’s own champions, from Albert Azaryan’s signature cross to Artur Davtyan’s eponymous vault. Unroll the mat. Your first step starts now.
Born in sixth-century India as a game of four army divisions, chess is a battlefield you fight with your mind alone. This book teaches young readers the board, every piece and its march, the openings and endgames, castling and checkmate, and the titles that climb toward grandmaster. It celebrates greats like Carlsen and Polgar, then dwells where it matters most: Armenia, the three-million-strong nation of Olympiad champions, Petrosian and Aronian, where chess is taught in every school.