Everything you need to know about basketball in one book, written with voice, style, and authenticity for today's young fans. Created in partnership with elite sports magazine Sports Illustrated Kids, the evolving history, style, play, and players of basketball is presented through in-your-face graphics and fresh text. Full of action-packed photos, the Sports Illustrated Kids: Big Book of Basketball will have readers on the edge of their stadium seats until the final page. Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He's written numerous children's books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.