Dad's Review: World At Your Feet

World at your feet, is a self-funded and self-published project, written by Rob Parker and illustrated by Lawerta. Our family enjoy reading together so when we were approached to give world at your feet a try, we were intrigued and excited to have something new to read with Casper.

The synopsis describes the book as the following:
"The best goals, on the biggest stage, scored by you.
World At Your Feet takes 16 of the world’s most iconic goals and make them yours.
Each goal is brought to life by a commentary written in rhyming verse, plus vivid illustrations befitting the colour and drama of the beautiful game.
In every case it is you, the reader, who gets to celebrate putting the ball in the net."

I am a big fan of football, a massive Portsmouth fan and despite the lack of skills many of which are covered in the book, I used to be partial to a kick about twice a week. It was decided I would read this to Casper and would be the best person to review this.
The book is a very unique concept, written in a first person perspective it describes the movement and skills used to score some of the world’s most iconic goals. It does this very well with great attention to detail, for example one of the verses describes the movement between the shadow and the light, which is a great description of good old fashioned wing play.
The illustrations are bright and colourful, and seeing them alongside the rhyming commentary for a massive football fan was rather nostalgic. These are all goals most football fans are very familiar with, even if you weren’t alive when they scored you will have seen them through the power of the internet by now. Casper enjoyed looking at the pictures more than listening to the actual story.
Whilst the nostalgia was great for myself, the story was somewhat lost on Casper. The recommended age for the book is between 3 and 10, but unfortunately Casper struggled to remain attentive to the story and I believe this is due to his lack of understanding and young age. I would recommend the book for between 6 and 10, by this point your child may well have started playing football and will be more capable of relating to the commentary.
The positive is that Casper will hopefully grow up to be a big fan of football and even bigger fan of Portsmouth if I have my way. We will be able to read this story again in years to come, and through the power of youtube I can show him the goals being described to help with his understanding.
I enjoyed reading it, even if Casper didn’t enjoy listening to me read it all that much, and would definitely recommend for any football fan.
The book costs £8.99* to buy is available to buy on Amazon and directly from World At Your Feet website. You can see more reviews and sneak peaks of the book over on their instagram page.
Thank you for reading,
Jamie!