Photographs and simple text introduce children to the balls, birdies, and pucks used by athletes, discussing baseball and softball, basketball, soccer, football, tennis, golf, badminton, and ice hockey.
Presents experiments and science fair projects that demonstrate the differences between kinds of sports balls and the relationship between their design and performance.
Describes the ways in which different balls are used in different sporting events, how they are made, why they look the way they do, and interesting facts about their history.
Frank, an adventurous little frog, is playing with his friends, when suddenly his ball flies off and bounces into the house of a giant. Frank's friends are too scared to help him get his ball back, so he sneaks into the huge house all by himself. Little Frank hopes he can find his ball before the big giant comes back.