training

Color photos and simple text present a coaching session of a basketball team, showing how the players warm up and practice shooting the ball and other skills.

Follows the Roadrunners, a team of young runners, through a warm-up and practice session.

Follows the Tigers, a girls' soccer team, through a good warm-up and practice match.

Color photos and simple text present a coaching session of a baseball team, showing how the players warm up and practice batting and other skills.

Introduces the killer whale, describing its way of life and habits in captivity and in the wild.

When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.

Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

After eight weeks at Papp's Dog School, Henry's dog Mudge earns a certificate and lots of liver treats.

Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.

Presents an illustrated introduction to the techniques, equipment, and safety requirements of horseback riding, and includes information on the care of horses.