H Is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet: Sleeping Bear Press Sports & Hobbies

Now anyone can be one of the "boys or girls of summer" and get a home plate view of America's favorite pastime in "H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet." This new offering in our line of children's alphabet books brings the game of baseball to entertaining and informative life. Sports writer Brad Herzog pairs easy-to-read rhymes with detailed expository so that readers are pitched baseball's facts, faces, history, and places from A-Z.

Brad Herzog's first published story was an article for his high school newspaper about his evening as an honorary batboy for the Chicago White Sox. He has been writing about baseball ever since. A writer of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction children's books, Brad wrote "Kis for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet," also published by Sleeping Bear Press. He lives on California's Monterey Peninsula.

"H is for Home Run" is Melanie Rose-Popp's second pairing with Brad Herzog. She has also illustrated "Kis for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet, M is for Maple: A Canadian Alphabet," and" Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet. "A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Melanie lives in Mississauga, Canada, with her husband and young son.