Football Legends Mary Fowler

Football Legends - Mary Fowler

by Kit Cross

Illustrated by Leigh Hedstromm

Published by Allen & Unwin
ISBN 9781761181344

If your children love soccer or enjoy watching the game this easy to hold book for kids ages 6 - 10 years is packed full of super interesting information about this remarkable star player Mary Fowler and the game.

Gary the GOAT (gorgeous outstanding and talented) is the cute character in the new Legends series that tells us many facts and interesting statistics and and other marvellous achievements about Mary was one of the youngest to join the Matildas.

Gary also tells the reader that Mary who is from Cairns in tropical Far Northern Queensland she was named after her two grandmothers, one from Ireland and the other from Papua New Guinea. Mary has great technical skills, is fast, athletic and clever and, she is mentally tough. Now that's a big plus in her favour. Read more about her legendary skills, and what helps to makes her this way. Perhaps coming from a sports loving family with four siblings and playing mini Olympics on the beach with her parents could have helped.

Her on-field talent was recognised early and she was good at school. When her family moved to The Netherlands for a while she learned to speak Dutch. Mary has her mentors and other legendary footballers she looks up to.

Young readers can find how she progressed in the sport while living in Europe and all the interesting things that happened, joining various clubs and teams when the family returned to Australia.

Mary Fowler's mini-biography and is an inspiration for younger players and it is easy to follow with fun black and white illustrations that highlight many facts including what happened when she was selected to play in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

These new sporting legend series make terrific, fact-filled and inspirational reading for the age group, with loads of facts and information to keep those pages turning.

The Author

Kit Cross is a children's writer based in Melbourne and is the author of the Legends series. When not thinking about all things sports, Kit enjoys solving Rubik's cubes and is mastering the art of soap carving.

The illusteator

Leigh Hedstrom is a freelance illustrator who lives on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and son. She grew up in South Africa, drawing every day and dreaming that one day she might become an animator. In the early 2000s, hand-drawn animation studios all around the world closed their doors, so she had to find the next best thing, which turned out to be the actual best thing - illustration. What Leigh loves about illustrating is that she's been able to work across a bunch of different industries: publishing, education, advertising, and more recently, toy design.

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