Skateboarding
Published on 1. August 2008
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-60279-259-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the complex world of the 21st century, the ability to use innovation to solve problems or make products better is a critical skill for kids to possess. This book uses a sport kid's love, skateboarding, to highlight how innovation has been used to make the sport and the people who play it, better.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Sixth Grade
Product notice
Library binding
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Table of contents; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60279-259-3 (9781602792593)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jim Fitzpatrick has been an active skateboarder since the steel-wheeled days of the 1950s. Past editor of Transworld's Skateboarding Business, he has been a frequent contributor to skateboard magazines and is the author of Tony Hawk. In 1994, he founded the nonprofit International Association of Skateboard Companies and is currently vice president of USA Skateboarding. A California native, he lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he is head of the Santa Barbara Montessori School.