BOOKS AND RESOURCES TO INSPIRE KIDS Stay healthy, eat well, and have some active fun CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS HAPPY FEET, HEALTHY FOOD Your Child's First Journal of Exercise and Healthy Eating Ideas for physical activity, healthy snacks, and a kid-friendly log-book for children to track their progress. By Carol Goodrow, KR Editor THE TREASURE OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Kids' chapter book, written and illustrated by Carol Goodrow Story of Hannah who embarks on an adventure with her dog to discover confidence and healthy habits. SEE MOM RUN Penny helps Mom train for a marathon. By Kara Douglass Thom, Lilly Golden RUN, DAD, RUN! Dad uses his running to run to the rescue. By Dulcibella Blackett, Andy Yelenak IZZIE'S RACE DAY Izzie runs her first fun run. By Andy Smith, Sue Atkinson SLOW DAYS, FAST FRIENDS Howard the cheetah makes a new friend when he must slow down after a running injury. By Erik Brooks PELLIE RUNS A MARATHON Written in rhyme to delight young children with a message that will inspire all. Read it over and over. By Michele Craemer from Power Pack Presentations MIKE AND THE BIKE Mike loves his bike and you will love this book. By Michael Ward, Illustrated by Bob Thomson Includes CD Click on illustration for book review. THE FIRST MARATHON, The Legend of Phedippides Phedippides: The kid-runner who inspired our modern-day marathons, By Susan Reynolds, Illustrated by Daniel Minter Click on illustration for book review. COCO LOVES TO TRI Kids' picture book, written in verse. Story of CoCo entering his first triathlon. By Michele Bredice Craemer. Illustrated by Jess Golden Click on illustration for book review. Scroll down to order. CHAPTER BOOKS Editor's Book: "Treasure of Health and Happiness" for kids of all ages. A story of healing, resilience of character, perseverance, and hope - all interspersed with running and healthy habits. Good Read: Want your young runners (11 to 16 yrs.) to find a book they love to read? Try 5K Runner by Jim Stevenson. It's a quick read that tells the story of a young boy who discovers his love of distance running. HIGH SCHOOL NOVELS City Runners by Larry Hinders. Here's a story about a group of teens in a detention center who become successful cross-country runners. Reading this book reminds us that every child deserves a happy childhood and that in the right setting the good in a human heart can triumph. GOOD MIX OF LITERARY WRITING AND RUNNING Life at These Speeds by Jeremy Jackson. This is Alan Webb's favorite novel and we love it, too. It's appropriate for high school students and adults. Need a good summer read that you can't put down? Then buy this book. And for younger children, here's a little story Jeremy wrote for our site. Shadow Running PE CENTRAL The PE Central Store features a large number of instructional resources (including books, DVD's, videotapes, and music CD's) that are designed to help physical educators teach physical education. RUNNING CLUB SUPPLIES Plastic TOE TOKENS From the "Feelin' Good Mileage Club", Fitness Finders, Call for a catalog. 1-800-789-WALK See them featured in a KR article - What are you Going to do with your Toe Token? FitDeck Jr. Exercise game (52 exercises, 70 different games) FREE RIBBONS FROM KR AND RUNNER'S WORLD LIGHT BLUE RIBBON Log-a-Mile BRIGHT BLUE RIBBON Happy Feet, Healthy Food Kids' Clubs RED RIBBON Run to Read and Write! GREEN RIBBON Run the Seasons RAINBOW RIBBON Run to Read and Color for Kiddie Milers WHITE RIBBON Birthday Fun Run YELLOW RIBBON Running Number Math Program KR T-SHIRTS KIDS RUNNING MULTICULTURAL TEES FOR PARENTS Would Somebody Please Send me to my Room! by Bob Schwartz FOR COACHES Training for Young Distance Runners by Larry Greene and Russ Pate, will help coaches understand when kids should begin to run and what the current trends are in distances run. See amazon.com link below. Total Training for Young Champions by Tudor O. Bompa, PHD, gives overall conditioning advice to coaches of young athletes. This book contains many training tips for speed, strength and endurance. See amazon.com link below carolgoodrow@verizon.net