Can You Catch Me?

Can You Catch Me? Can You Catch Me? Jill Schafer Godberson, author Estelle Buhr, illustrator Kids Rock! Books 201 Spruce Drive, Ida Grove, IA 51455 9781427646828, $10.00, www.kidsrockbooks.com "Can You Catch Me?" is a beginning chapter book for youngreaders ages 6-10 about a boy named Alex Cooper whose favorite activityis running. Full of energy, Alex loves to run everywhere. it has 12short chapters and 12 black and white illustrations. What better sportto go out for than Track and Field Day, with the running events and thelong jump? But in reading "Can You Catch Me?" children willlearn that running as a distance sport can be very demanding and tiring,and the discipline required to stay in shape is awesome. Alex enters thePine Ridge Kids' 2 K Race, and the excitement mounts. Even moreintense, towards the end of the summer, Alex finds a need for hisrunning skills to help save a girl who is trapped in a pond of deep coldwater. "Can You Catch Me?" is the fourth book in the Kidsrock! Books series of unique children's chapter books. Alsorecommended in this series by the same author is "Golf--A Game ForLife (9781427646811, $10.00)."