Starting with… You Have to Throw 60 mph to Pitch on Varsity What we’re going to cover today is the stuff where coaches should know better but they say those things anyway because they just don’t bother to think before they speak. I’m not talking about any of those instances here. Sometimes it’s because we haven’t updated our information since the last century, like telling hitters to “squish the bug” or “throw your hands at the ball.” Sometimes, like telling a pitcher “just throw strikes,” it’s because we simply don’t know what else to say. Sometimes it’s from frustration, like asking a player if their parents are first cousins. We all say stupid things from time to time.
One big positive (and probably the main reason I bought the book) - GREAT cover art.Fastpitch softball coaches are not immune to this phenomenon. I think older (teen) kids will think it's too juvenile and younger kids will think parts of it are too scary. If this is meant for children, I don't know what age.
#Speech bug squish movie#
The things that bother me the most would be okay for younger readers - double spacing of sentences and paragraphs so there is a lot of empty space on the pages - it almost reads like a movie script I HATED the sound effects - they just kept coming and coming - probably okay if you were reading this aloud to kids but not for adults minimal character development really annoying Zosimo who couldn't seem to decide what kind of character he should be (educated or ignorant). It makes more sense to me that it was written for a younder audience. Usually under "Product Details" on the description page, target age is noted.
If I'd read the reviews better before purchasing, I would have had a clue but even reading the reviews it seems like there is some question as to the target age. Overall, I think it is a very good story for children of the appropriate age.įirst of all, I do not see that this is marked as a YA book. I'm not sure if anyone would be that charitable in a real life situation, though. Mary, the grandmother, really held things together and she was a very nice but strong person, and she saw both sides of the story when she commented about the bugs' desire to survive. The characters themselves represented a pretty good sampling of children and adults. They were the one thing I didn't enjoy about "Bug Island." In the short amount of time that Zosimo was in the story, his English improved faster than I would expect it to in that situation. Maybe younger children will appreciate them more than an adult reader, but I found them very intrusive.
They diverted my attention away from the paragraph or sentence that I'd just read.
What bothered me the most was the sounds. I like very much that the author put information at the end about the different types of insects and some facts about them and then the fictional characteristics as they were in the story. The story is good and it did carry me along with the adventures of the people stuck on the island and their problems with the bugs. I would say that this is middle school or 4th or 5th grade reading level. When I read the description again, that explained the simpler language and the lack of character development, and little about the characters' lives before the cruise. Cordiner, I forgot that it is for young readers. When I sat down to read "Bug Island" by R.G.
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