Thank you Candlewick Press and Netgalley for an ARc in return for my honest review.

This was a fun, enjoyable book that children around the 7-9 year age group would love.

The book is based around a week of school subjects, teaching about the worlds through soccer.

Each chapter is based on an educational subject and has fun facts, illustrations and quizzes all give through the analogy of soccer.

Some of the chapters include: biology, where the importance of what and when you eat are explained, maths, where the probability of dying while playing soccer is explored (relatively low thankfully): geography, where different skills sets for soccer are examined and the emergencynod Futsal is revealed and Business studies where budgets are discussed.

This is a fabulous book and a highly effective way to teach a soccer loving child.

Soccer School Season 1 is a book i think best for upper elementary students. It is written as if it is a week of school classes. The book starts with an introduction to your coaches/ teachers for your soccer school, as well as your class schedule for the week. your first class on Monday is Biology, And what this chapter basically amounts to is poop. Okay, what 3rd/4th/5th grade boy won't like a book that not only contains a healthy amount of pictures, but also starts with a section on poop! i know, it probably sounds gross, but potty humor has their interest. and besides, it brings education and nutrition into the subject. by teaching you about what to eat and when to eat it when exercising. This is then followed by math, english, zoology physical education, history, psychology, technology, geography, drama, business, fashion, music, physics, etc, Each of these subjects is tied to soccer in some way. For instance, fashion is uniforms, physics is how soccer would work on other planets. Each school subject has a quiz (just a few questions). it was really pretty interesting how the authors found a way to tie soccer to so many different subjects.
I found this book to be written in language appropriate for the intended grade level. The sections were of good length to read a few minutes and have natural breaks before the child would be bored. And there were a good amount of pictures. I do think it would benefit from a table of contents.
My only complaint about this book is that there was something off with the digital formatting. My son and i looked at this both on an iphone and an ipad and both had similar results. The pictures did not fit the screen, and since they frequently had pictures and words overlapping, sometimes a word or sentence or picture would stretch over pages. Or sometimes two sentences were overlapping. It was hard to figure out exactly what the sentence was supposed to be at times. Even so, i think this book would be something kids would really be drawn to at a school book fair!
Thanks to Netgalley, Mr Bellos,and Mr Lyttleton, and Candlewick Press for this Arc