Every participant in this week’s Sporting Chance Calypso Cricket festival has received an OCTAVIA goes ‘out in’ Asia special edition cricket book. Written by Helen Nevin and Sarah Riordan as part of their planet Octavia series, the cricket book is interesting , informative, educational and entertaining and features 40 pages of bright, original illustrations as well as maps and quizzes. Following the story of Octavia, the wise ostrich and his two children friends Theo and Sophie as they set out to discover Asia, en route they visit the 14 countries participating in the international cricket tournament and learn all their in to know about the different destinations and the game of cricket.
Thanks to authors Sarah and Helen for giving these wonderful books to Sporting Chance to distribute to all the Calypso children. The books are a unique and important way to promote literacy amongst the community children and what better way to do that than matching the children’s love for sport with reading and learning!