Good Sports: A Storybook of Kiwi Sports Heroes, Stuart Lipshaw, Puffin (2023) 208 pages, hardback, NZ$45 ISBN 978-0-14-377863-9
In Good Sports: A Storybook of Kiwi Sports Heroes (2023) Stuart Lipshaw presents lively profiles of fifty inspirational New Zealand sporting personalities. (To be precise there are 53 people because he included the four members of the footballing Cox family and rowers Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell, as well as Charisma, Mark Todd’s horse.) Lipshaw’s interest is not in gold medals or world records; rather he is intrigued by the way these people have overcome barriers to achieve their goals in their particular sporting interest.
The format is the same as in his readable Oh Boy! (2018).
Each athlete gets a two-page account of how they overcame a physical or mental
barrier and the effect it had on their lives. A colour portrait by a New Zealand artist complements each entry.
The result is not so much a set of biographies as a
collection of motivation stories to serve as an inspiration for young readers. It is nice to think of a future generation having a moment of inspiration in these pages.
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