Sports Tours International goes book-crazy for World Book Day!
Each year, World Book Day helps to cement the importance of reading and its value not just to children, but to book-lovers and reading novices alike all over the world. At Sports Tours International, as you can imagine, we have a particular fondness for sport-related reads! But rather than joining our kids in dressing up as our favourite story book characters (as much as we’d love to!) we’d like to share with you just a few of our personal favourites! ‘Penguins Stopped Play’ by Harry Thompson A delightfully funny tale, ‘Penguins Stopped Play’ tells the story of a daring feat: To organise an eleven-man team to play a game of cricket simultaneously across the globe over seven continents. As you’d expect, with a task as difficult as this, things don’t exactly go to plan… But what you might not expect is all the weird and wacky ways the plan goes awry! To give you just a brief idea, the specifics include: overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa