H.O.R.S.E.

One day at the basketball court, two kids, a familiar challenge--H.O.R.S.E.?

But this isn’t your grandmother’s game of hoops.

Not when a layup
        from the other side of the court
                     standing on one foot
                               with your eyes closed  is just the warm-up.

Around the neighborhood, around the world, off Saturn’s rings, the pair goes back and forth.

The game is as much about skill as it is about imagination.

A slam dunk from multi-award-winning author/illustrator Christopher Myers, H.O.R.S.E. is a celebration of the sport of basketball, the art of trash-talking, and the idea that what’s possible is bounded only by what you can dream.

A 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Book

Like the ballplayers in this book, Christopher Myers defies gravity every chance he can get. Their imagination took them into outer space; his has taken him from Harlem during its Renaissance in  Harlem: A Poem, written by Walter Dean Myers, to vibrant city streets in Black Cat, from the bounds of Earth with Wing and Fly! and into a fiercely fought basketball game in Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. 

For these flights of imagination, Christopher has received many awards and honors, including a Caldecott Honor, three Coretta Scott King Honors, three Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors, and a New York Times Best Illustrated award.

When he isn’t working, Christopher plays touch football with a bunch of other artists in Brooklyn, New York.