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Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure
by Emma Larkin
On my blog today I have the pleasure of
sharing with you..........
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure
I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Emma Larkin for inviting me on the blog tour.
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Izzy is a seven-year-old girl who lives in Ireland and loves all sport, especially Gaelic Football.
Izzy plays football with her brothers on a regular basis in their back garden and dreams of playing for her county in the All Ireland Ladies Football Final in Croke Park when she is older.
One day, Izzy puts on her great grandmother’s bracelet, which is made of old All Ireland medals that her great grandmother won a long time ago, and something unexpected and magical happens, which may make Izzy’s Croke Park dream a reality sooner than she expected…………….
Izzy plays football with her brothers on a regular basis in their back garden and dreams of playing for her county in the All Ireland Ladies Football Final in Croke Park when she is older.
One day, Izzy puts on her great grandmother’s bracelet, which is made of old All Ireland medals that her great grandmother won a long time ago, and something unexpected and magical happens, which may make Izzy’s Croke Park dream a reality sooner than she expected…………….
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My Review
4☆ A Fun, Uplifting Magical Football Adventure!
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure is a wonderfully magical Football adventure.
Izzy dreams of playing Gaelic football for her County Women's Team.
She plays with her three brothers every day.
But gets frustrated and angry that they don't take her seriously and she is annoyed that if she can't beat her brothers, she will never make it playing for her County.
After another mess about with her brothers and losing again, she gets angry and stomps off to her room.
It's here she finds her Great Grandmother's special bracelet. It's very special because it contains 3 medals her Grandmother won playing for her County, just like Izzy wants to do. She is her inspiration!
So when Izzy starts to rub her bracelet to try and read what's on the bracelet, something magical happens and all Izzy's dreams come true!
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure gives such a Positive and Strong message to never give up on your dreams.
It teaches that you need to firstly have fun, work hard and a little perseverance and dedication pays off.
Oh and also it's OK for Girls and Women to play all sport.
Times are changing, look at the Women's Football World Cup...that was AMAZING!!
When I first read Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure, I was very very intrigued to know what Gaelic football was, and how you play it.
As in the book Izzy mentions Hopping the ball.
So I had to look it up. I not only looked on the women's Gaelic football site I also googled, and it's a lil bit like rugby.
You can carry the ball no more than 4 steps then you have to Hop the ball of the end of your foot. It's fascinating and I'm definitely going to look up more about it!
So a big thank you to Emma for opening my eyes to a new sport!
My only niggle with this book is that some of the technical terms are not explained.
As above I mentioned hopping.
Younger readers wouldn't know what this meant, I certainly didn't. Admittedly it made me research it which teaches children how to look things up and research.
But for me I lost a lil bit of the sparkle that surrounds the game as i didn't understand how to play it.
However it is beautifully Illustrated, has a Uplifting, heart warming and joyous plot.
Izzy is a strong, dedicated and passionate young girl whose personality and love for her sport shone through.
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure is definitely a book that would appeal to all young readers.
So if like me this book thoroughly Intrigues you, then I highly recommend reading it.
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure is a wonderfully magical Football adventure.
Izzy dreams of playing Gaelic football for her County Women's Team.
She plays with her three brothers every day.
But gets frustrated and angry that they don't take her seriously and she is annoyed that if she can't beat her brothers, she will never make it playing for her County.
After another mess about with her brothers and losing again, she gets angry and stomps off to her room.
It's here she finds her Great Grandmother's special bracelet. It's very special because it contains 3 medals her Grandmother won playing for her County, just like Izzy wants to do. She is her inspiration!
So when Izzy starts to rub her bracelet to try and read what's on the bracelet, something magical happens and all Izzy's dreams come true!
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure gives such a Positive and Strong message to never give up on your dreams.
It teaches that you need to firstly have fun, work hard and a little perseverance and dedication pays off.
Oh and also it's OK for Girls and Women to play all sport.
Times are changing, look at the Women's Football World Cup...that was AMAZING!!
When I first read Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure, I was very very intrigued to know what Gaelic football was, and how you play it.
As in the book Izzy mentions Hopping the ball.
So I had to look it up. I not only looked on the women's Gaelic football site I also googled, and it's a lil bit like rugby.
You can carry the ball no more than 4 steps then you have to Hop the ball of the end of your foot. It's fascinating and I'm definitely going to look up more about it!
So a big thank you to Emma for opening my eyes to a new sport!
My only niggle with this book is that some of the technical terms are not explained.
As above I mentioned hopping.
Younger readers wouldn't know what this meant, I certainly didn't. Admittedly it made me research it which teaches children how to look things up and research.
But for me I lost a lil bit of the sparkle that surrounds the game as i didn't understand how to play it.
However it is beautifully Illustrated, has a Uplifting, heart warming and joyous plot.
Izzy is a strong, dedicated and passionate young girl whose personality and love for her sport shone through.
Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure is definitely a book that would appeal to all young readers.
So if like me this book thoroughly Intrigues you, then I highly recommend reading it.
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About me
My name is Emma Larkin, and I am the founder of “Emma Larkin Books” and “Rebel in Kerry Press”. I have recently written and published my first book “Izzy’s Magical Football Adventure”, and I hope to write many more books about Izzy and her adventures in sport. As may be evident from the name of my publishing imprint, I am a “Rebel in Kerry”! This means that I am originally from County Cork in Ireland, which is known as the Rebel County, but I moved to Kerry (another county in Ireland which neighbours Cork) in 2006 and have been happily living in Kerry since then, with my husband and four children. My husband is a Kerry native and we live in North Kerry, near Listowel, where my husband is from, and is an area which is rich is literary history!
I have always enjoyed reading and writing. Writing essays was my favourite part of primary school!
In my spare time, I love to run. I am very involved in my local parkrun in Listowel. I also coach ladies’ football at underage level with my local ladies’ football club and did attempt to play ladies football for a few years with my local “Gaelic4Mothers&Others Team”! I may not have been the greatest football player, but I could run! And it was an hour each week where I could exercise in a fun environment with a fantastic group of women, who I remain friends with to this day.
My inspiration to write this book was my grandmother, Maureen Hennebry, née Cashman. She was on the Cork camogie team which won the All-Ireland Camogie Championship three times in row between 1939 and 1941. She came from a family rich in GAA history, the Cashman’s of Blackrock in Cork, and is even mentioned in the following poem by the famous Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh:
Camogie Match
Patrick Kavanagh 1905 - 1967
Bright shone the sunlight on Peggy and Doreen
Wild swung the ash sticks. Be careful astoreen;
Josie is getting into her stride now,
Kathleen is hurling with all her Cork pride now.
A shout from the side-line: Mark your man, Kathleen Cody.
Kathleen pucks it. I tell you that puck was a dotie.
The game is exciting, it is indeed really,
Maureen Cashman is tackling the bold Ide O’Kiely …
In hindsight, I am in awe of the fact that my grandmother and her teammates played camogie at such a high level at a time in Ireland, where a woman’s role was predominantly to be a wife and homemaker. Which comes to my reason for writing this book, my grandmother was my inspiration to write it, but my reason for writing it was to encourage all young girls to play sports. It is crucial for our wellbeing and development and we need to make it as normal for girls to play sport as it is for boys. The growing popularity of women’s sports in Ireland and further afield is so encouraging and we need to continue to develop this. As the current 20*20 campaign says, “if she can’t see it, she can’t be it”. I hope that my book can in some way help to normalise girls playing football and that both boys and girls will enjoy reading about Izzy’s adventures!
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