Costain, Meredith.
Olympic Summer Games 2000.
Puffin Books: New York, 2000. Provides an excellent history of the Olympics, as well as a detailed account of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Knudson, R.R., and May Swenson.
American Sports Poems
. Orchard Books: New York, 1988. This book is an excellent source for teachers and students. This book contains hundreds of poems that meet all reading level abilities on a very wide variety of sports.
Thaler, Mike.
The Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon.
Scholastic Inc.: New York, 1994. This is an easy book for students to read, and it directly relates to Physical Education
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence.
Casey at the Bat.
PaperStar: New York, 1988. This classic book is a must for teachers integrating sports into the classroom. The book tells the tale of mighty Casey’s misfortune that day.