College football may still be off the radar of many elementary schoolers, but Stewart, who has written plenty of sports books for children, gives the legendary Michigan Wolverines enough pizzazz to be worthy of a young sports fan’s attention. His opening is a quick, enthusiastic overview, with subsequent chapters sketching in bits of history (the team has been around since 1879) into the 2007 season. Stewart also gives a rundown of the team’s achievements and profiles a few of its outstanding players. Abundant, well-captioned photos (a combination of vintage and sharp, full-color recent ones) add punch, and a selection of curious facts (there are no wolverines in Michigan), a time line, a map of Big Ten teams, and, oddly, two glossaries (one for football terms, the other including words like campus and extraordinary) round out the text.
